Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · South Dakota

Big Stone Plant

Big Stone City, SD · ~80 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Stone Plant runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Stone Plant: 1.4 TCR = 116% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Stone Plant safety composite

Big Stone Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Big Stone Plant: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.86× in 2024

Big Stone Plant's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Big Stone City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P52
  • PHOTO Panama City Beach
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Panama City Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Stone Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Stone Plant averages 1.4 TCR (116% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

Big Stone Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Big Stone Plant falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Big Stone Plant (80 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big Stone Plant
Big Stone Plant (80 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Big Stone Plant has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 3 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

221112 · SD · Big Stone City

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Big Stone City, 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 Panama City Beach 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply Chain Management 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powerton Station 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nueces Bay LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Design Solutions & Integration, Inc 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE aaladin industries 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 50 SAE Warehouse 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese Big Stone 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poet Biorefining -Big Stone 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Nascote- Enterprise Ave 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweeney Water Treatment Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cole Carbide Industries Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Center Rock Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Capitan Lodge Casino LLC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ontario (BAMG) 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Nitrogen 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE PirTano Construction Co 80 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, 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.