Mail and Parcel Delivery · South Dakota

469180-Watertown Po

Watertown, SD · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

469180-Watertown Po runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade C.

469180-Watertown Po: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

469180-Watertown Po safety composite

469180-Watertown Po scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

469180-Watertown Po: 2.5 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2022

469180-Watertown Po's TCR rose 4.8 from 2.5 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #8/29
  • PHOTO SOMERSET_1382026
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOMERSET_1382026 (0.0 TCR gap)

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469180-Watertown Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 469180-Watertown Po averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

469180-Watertown Po TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=7.2 · BLS 4.5

Where 469180-Watertown Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 29 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in South Dakota.

469180-Watertown Po (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 469180-Watertown Po
469180-Watertown Po (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

469180-Watertown Po has fewer employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 7.2 7.2 3 0 0
2021 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2020 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.9 2.5 1 1 0
2017 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · SD · Watertown

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 SOMERSET_1382026 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EASTERN MAINE CARRIER ANNEX_1434491 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAINT ROSE_1558451 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSWEGO_1376397 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pierre 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Office and Warehouse 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mills Construction Inc 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jans Corporation 45 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 281283-Cape Girardeau 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 114920-Lakeland Fl Po 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 113993-Hol-Flamingo Br 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 054314-Lincoln Po 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 261101-Bra-Baxter Carrier Anx 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 163276-Grayslake Po 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 266311-Min-Diamond Lake Sta 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 165791-Oak-South Station Br 45 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.