OSHA has inspected Lifescape, Inc. 3 times in South Dakota since 2016.
The latest one began on Feb 16, 2023 after a complaint, in Sioux Falls.
Those inspections ended with 2 citation items: 2 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $26,787 and now stand at $18,000, 33% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for health care employers since 2015 is $1,050, and Lifescape, Inc. averages $18,000 (1 cited inspection).
Lifescape, Inc. also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
It reported 4 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
South Dakota · latest 90 days of OSHA records
30employers cited
Get notified the morning OSHA posts each new citation in South Dakota: the employer, the site address, the rules broken and the penalty.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Sioux Falls site logged 30 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 497 workers: 5.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.8 for its industry. Those cases cost 70 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
LifeScape - Adult Services
Sioux Falls · 2025
497
30
8
5.6
4.8
Childrens Care Hospital and School
Sioux Falls · 2025
431
59
18
16.9
4.8
Autism & Development Center
Sioux Falls · 2025
38
3
1
8.6
3.0
LifeScape - Louise
Sioux Falls · 2025
25
0
0
0.0
0.0
LifeScape - Administration Services
Sioux Falls · 2024
82
0
0
0.0
3.3
LifeScape Administration Services
Sioux Falls · 2022
78
0
0
0.0
3.3
LifeScape Children's Services - 26th St
Sioux Falls · 2020
395
60
21
19.7
3.0
LifeScape - Rehab 18th St
Sioux Falls · 2020
93
0
0
0.0
3.0
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 4 reports on file.
Jan 23, 2020, Sioux Falls: Hospitalization · fractures · wrist(s)
While exiting a vehicle at a residential home, an employee slipped on ice/snow and fell to the ground, requiring hospitalization for a fractured wrist.
Jan 7, 2020, Sioux Falls: Hospitalization · fractures · hip(s)
Employee was walking from her car to the building when she slipped on ice in the parking lot and impacted the ground, breaking her hip.
An employee was removing leaves from gutters. The employee returned to the truck to get water, lost consciousness due to heat stress and dehydration, and struck their head on the truck. The employee suffered a concussion.
An employee was unplugging heat tape used in an exterior drain spout from an electrical box. The box was positioned so that the employee had stand on a grate to access it; the grate gave way and the employee fell into the window well about 90 inches, suffering broken ribs and four broken vertebrae.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
29 CFR 1910.132(a)
(a) Application. Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, shall be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact.
Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
