Courier Services Except by Air · South Dakota

Aberdeen (Sdabe)

Aberdeen, SD · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aberdeen (Sdabe) runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade B.

Aberdeen (Sdabe): 4.8 TCR = 74% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aberdeen (Sdabe) safety composite

Aberdeen (Sdabe) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Aberdeen (Sdabe): 3.2 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2018

Aberdeen (Sdabe)'s TCR rose 3.1 from 3.2 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Aberdeen, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.8 · 74% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #7/35
  • PHOTO VAKEY - KEYSVILLE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VAKEY - KEYSVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aberdeen (Sdabe) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aberdeen (Sdabe) averages 4.8 TCR (74% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Aberdeen (Sdabe) TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Aberdeen (Sdabe) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 35 Courier Services Except by Air employers in South Dakota.

Aberdeen (Sdabe) (43 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Aberdeen (Sdabe)
Aberdeen (Sdabe) (43 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Aberdeen (Sdabe) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 6.3 3.2 2 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SD · Aberdeen

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, 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 VAKEY - KEYSVILLE 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 6050 ROCKWELL RD 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FT. LAUDERDALE (FLFTL) 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DII3 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoogendoorn Construction, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE House of Glass, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 3 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ringneck Energy, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Ft. Lauderdale (Flftl) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 300 - Mechanicsburg 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakkota Louisville Westport 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 15035 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rock Springs (Wyroc) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Mountain (Nhtwi) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk (Nenor) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus (Necol) 43 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.