Distribution of electric power · South Dakota

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station

Elkton, SD · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Distribution of electric power workplace, earning a grade A.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station: 0.6 TCR = 47% of Distribution of electric power BLS 1.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station safety composite

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Elkton, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO CenterPoint Energy -…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CenterPoint Energy - Ft Bend (0.0 TCR gap)

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Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station averages 0.6 TCR (47% of the Distribution of electric power BLS benchmark).

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

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station falls in its industry

2,958 Distribution of electric power establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Distribution of electric power employers in South Dakota.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station (28 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station
Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station (28 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station has fewer employees than the Distribution of electric power median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · SD · Elkton

2,958 Distribution of electric power employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Elkton, 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 CenterPoint Energy - Ft Bend 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitewater Valley REMC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DALLAS (NE) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fayetteville Operations 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Electric Cooperative 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwoods 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timmons Construction Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barricades 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkton 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin City Fan Companies. Ltd. Eltkon 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Dakota Farms LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kodiak 21 FTE
NAT-TCR CML Security Utah 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Euclid Oh 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwell Automation- Mequon WI (MEQ) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North Point Bay Ventures, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Paper Dothan Sheet Plant 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sand Lake Plant - 01 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allendale Plant - 05 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Section 8 Valley 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.