Nursing homes · South Dakota

Palisade Healthcare Community

Garretson, SD · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palisade Healthcare Community runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

Palisade Healthcare Community: 5.3 TCR = 82% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palisade Healthcare Community safety composite

Palisade Healthcare Community scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Palisade Healthcare Community: 1.8 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2017

Palisade Healthcare Community's TCR rose 7.0 from 1.8 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Garretson, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 82% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #20/107
  • PHOTO Del Rio Nursing and …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Del Rio Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palisade Healthcare Community in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Palisade Healthcare Community averages 5.3 TCR (82% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Palisade Healthcare Community TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=8.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Palisade Healthcare Community falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 107 Nursing homes employers in South Dakota.

Palisade Healthcare Community (58 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palisade Healthcare Community
Palisade Healthcare Community (58 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Palisade Healthcare Community has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 8.9 8.9 4 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · SD · Garretson

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Garretson, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Del Rio Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life Care Center at Inverrary 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 63304 SUNRISE OF LOWER MAKEFIELD 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oakmont Manor 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cable Communication Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Tom's Sandwiches 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poet Bioprocessing-Chancellor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE WeatherStar 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nordstrom's Automotive Inc. 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palisade 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palisade SNF Operations, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-TCR 0397 - Pennsauken, Nj 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Chester (Pawes) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseburg (Orros) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield (Ohman) 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living Facility 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schluter Systems - Reno 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden N and R LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa 58 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.