General medical and surgical hospitals · South Dakota

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System

Name: Prairie Lakes Healthcare System Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Watertown, SD · ~611 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System: 2.5 TCR = 33% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System safety composite

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System: 2.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2023

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.0 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.5 · 33% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #15/73
PHOTO Mercy Healthcare Sac…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 23 inj
SIZE ~611 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mercy Healthcare Sac Regional (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.5
Mercy Healthca

2.5
Methodist Hosp

2.5
Texas Health S

2.5
Bozeman Health

2.5

What this shows Prairie Lakes Healthcare System averages 2.5 TCR (33% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=3 · BLS 7.5

Where Prairie Lakes Healthcare System falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 73 General medical and surgical h employers in South Dakota.

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System (611 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 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
2023	3.0	0.9	14	0	0
2022	2.0	1.8	9	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mercy Healthcare Sac Regional	RANCHO CORDOVA, CA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Methodist Hospital Hill Country	FREDERICKSBURG, TX	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Texas Health Stephenville	STEPHENVILLE, TX	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical Center	BIG SKY, MT	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	G&A	DAKOTA DUNES	610 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LifeScape Adult Services Western	SIOUX FALLS	620 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prairie Lakes Healthcare	WATERTOWN	601 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Terex - Watertown	WATERTOWN	598 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1500	Watertown	352 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dakota Bodies LLC	Watertown	321 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WI Engineered Cabs - Watertown	Watertown	305 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Worthington Industries Watertown	Watertown	301 FTE
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #132 LAFAYETTE, IN	Lafayette, IN	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roads & Transportation	Anoka, MN	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	LTCS11554	Uniondale, NY	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Land N' Sea - Kent (DMP)	Kent, WA	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Life EMS Inc.	Grand Rapids, MI	611 FTE
NAT-SIZE	182413-Des Moines Ndc	Des Moines, IA	611 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fremont Hotel Casino	Las Vegas, NV	611 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pulaski Plant	Pulaski, TN	611 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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