General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

Prairie Lakes Healthcare

Watertown, SD · ~601 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Lakes Healthcare runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Prairie Lakes Healthcare: 4.7 TCR = 62% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Lakes Healthcare safety composite

Prairie Lakes Healthcare scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2024

Prairie Lakes Healthcare injury rate improved

Prairie Lakes Healthcare's TCR fell 1.5 from 5.0 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2021=4.7 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.7 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #37/73
  • PHOTO Pelham Medical Center
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~601 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pelham Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Lakes Healthcare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Lakes Healthcare averages 4.7 TCR (62% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Lakes Healthcare TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2021=4.7 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Prairie Lakes Healthcare falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

Prairie Lakes Healthcare (601 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Lakes Healthcare
Prairie Lakes Healthcare (601 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Prairie Lakes Healthcare has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 3.5 0.8 14 0 0
2021 4.7 1.1 21 0 0
2019 4.2 0.3 16 0 0
2018 5.8 0.6 20 0 0
2016 5.0 1.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SD · Watertown

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 Pelham Medical Center 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AdventHealth Dade City 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar City Hospital 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CentraCare Paynesville 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
STATE-SIZE SD,Sioux Falls-Stevens Center-Office Administrative Services 595 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&A 610 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota Bodies LLC 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR WI Engineered Cabs - Watertown 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Worthington Industries Watertown 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 39 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler Demolition 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnesita Refractories 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Contracting Enterprise, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Master Craft Boats 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gibbon Packing 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pebble Beach - Lodge 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haslet, TX - 1150 Intermodal Parkway 601 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: 2024, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.