Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · South Dakota

Whispering Winds Senior Living

Name: Whispering Winds Senior Living Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Howard, SD · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.8
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Whispering Winds Senior Living runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Whispering Winds Senior Living: 4.8 TCR = 127% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whispering Winds Senior Living safety composite

Whispering Winds Senior Living scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Whispering Winds Senior Living: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2019

Whispering Winds Senior Living's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 9.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Howard, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 127% of ind

DART 9.7 DART
RANK #4/12
PHOTO Landings of Albemarle
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Landings of Albemarle (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Whispering Winds Senior Living averages 4.8 TCR (127% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

Whispering Winds Senior Living TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=9.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Whispering Winds Senior Living falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in South Dakota.

Whispering Winds Senior Living (18 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Whispering Winds Senior Living has fewer employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2019	9.7	9.7	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · SD · Howard

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Howard, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Landings of Albemarle	HERFORD, NC	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ivy Park at Seal Beach	SEAL BEACH, CA	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fountains Residence at Mill Cove	JACKSONVILLE, FL	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Magnolia Bridge at Murrells Inlet	MURRELLS INLET, SC	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ABS Global - Sioux Falls	SIOUX FALLS	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Plains Utilities & Excavating	SIOUX FALLS	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prairie AquaTech dba Houdek	BROOKINGS	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Roscoe	ROSCOE	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PBM Graphics - SD	Howard	121 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Good Samaritan Society Howard	Howard	57 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Howard Farmers Coop Assn	Howard	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Howard Farmers Coop	Howard	31 FTE
NAT-TCR	Eti LLC	Oklahoma City, OK	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	SealMaster	Allentown, PA	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maple Press Distribution Center YDC	York, PA	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	PHC-Morgan City LP	Morgan City, LA	4.8 TCR

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: 2019, 2017. 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.