Gases, compressed and liquefied (except liquefied petroleum gas), merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~86 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gases, compressed and liquefied (except liquefied petroleum gas), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 160% of Gases, compressed and liquefied (except liquefied petroleum gas), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. safety composite

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2020→2024

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. injury rate improved

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 2.5 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 160% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Producers Chemical C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Producers Chemical Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (160% of the Gases, compressed and liquefied (except liquefied petroleum gas), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.2

Where A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. falls in its industry

766 Gases, compressed and liquefie establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. (86 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A-Ox Welding Supply Inc.
A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. (86 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

A-Ox Welding Supply Inc. has more employees than the Gases, compressed and liquefied (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 6.6 4.0 5 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · SD · Sioux Falls

766 Gases, compressed and liquefied (except liquefied petroleum gas), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 Producers Chemical Company 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2722 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JCI Charlotte 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sullivans, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weisser Distributing Inc 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regional Behavioral Health Center 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kilstrom Center 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Gaspard & Sons 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KSi Conveyors, Inc. - Cissna Park 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard Grote & Sons Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TFP Nutrition 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lippmann Milwaukee 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #278 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHC VanAyer 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversified Harvesting Comapany LLC 86 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.