Discount Department Stores · South Dakota

0859 - Watertown

Watertown, SD · ~112 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0859 - Watertown runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0859 - Watertown: 7.0 TCR = 207% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0859 - Watertown safety composite

0859 - Watertown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

0859 - Watertown: 1.6 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

0859 - Watertown's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.6 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 207% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/23
  • PHOTO 1391 - Charleston So…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1391 - Charleston South (0.0 TCR gap)

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0859 - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0859 - Watertown averages 7.0 TCR (207% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0859 - Watertown TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 0859 - Watertown falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 23 Discount Department Stores employers in South Dakota.

0859 - Watertown (112 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0859 - Watertown
0859 - Watertown (112 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0859 - Watertown has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2023 7.1 3.6 4 0 0
2022 15.5 15.5 4 6 0
2021 7.5 4.5 1 4 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · SD · Watertown

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 1391 - Charleston South 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1547 - Moorpark 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2503 - Hoover West 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 121 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CURT Group - Brandon 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE County Fair Food Store - Mitchell 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Inn on Westport 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bell Incorporated 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR 1391 - Charleston South 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Tour Line, LLC. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1547 - Moorpark 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Middle Tennessee Lumber Company, Inc. - MT 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1538 - Belton 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Hawthorne-W 145th Street 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Alturas Nursing and Transitional Care 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oviedo Corporate Office 112 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.