Parachutes manufacturing · South Dakota

Aerostar Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, SD · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aerostar Sioux Falls runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Parachutes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Aerostar Sioux Falls: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Parachutes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aerostar Sioux Falls safety composite

Aerostar Sioux Falls scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2016→2021

Aerostar Sioux Falls injury rate improved

Aerostar Sioux Falls's TCR fell 7.5 from 8.3 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Filtration : Tell City
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Filtration : Tell City (0.1 TCR gap)

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Aerostar Sioux Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aerostar Sioux Falls averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Parachutes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Aerostar Sioux Falls TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=11.3 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Aerostar Sioux Falls falls in its industry

89 Parachutes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Aerostar Sioux Falls (89 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Aerostar Sioux Falls
Aerostar Sioux Falls (89 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Aerostar Sioux Falls has more employees than the Parachutes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 5.9 3.7 8 0 0
2019 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.3 11.3 8 0 0
2017 8.9 4.5 6 0 0
2016 8.3 2.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · SD · Sioux Falls

89 Parachutes manufacturing 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 Filtration : Tell City 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airborne Systems NJ 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Flag and Banner Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Manufacturing 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Berry LLC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE TranSource Truck & Equipment 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2024 Coborn's Huron -SD 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAPID CITY (SDRAP) 89 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 6795-48002B01CK 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sl Start & Associates, LLC - Twin Falls Id 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Hills of Independence 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JSM and Associates 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seacoast Harley-Davidson 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strack and Van Til Crown Point Franciscan 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Trans/BBU 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vox Nutrition 89 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.