Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing · South Dakota

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix

Rapid City, SD · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix safety composite

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix: 4.3 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2022

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix's TCR rose 1.6 from 4.3 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Advance Ready Mix Co…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advance Ready Mix Concrete, Inc Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-Mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Ready-Mix concrete manufacturi employers in South Dakota.

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix (41 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix
Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix (41 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix has more employees than the Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022 5.9 4.0 3 0 0
2021 9.4 7.1 3 1 0
2020 12.8 6.4 4 2 0
2019 4.9 2.5 1 1 0
2018 7.2 7.2 3 0 0
2016 4.3 2.2 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · SD · Rapid City

1,316 Ready-Mix concrete manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid 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 Advance Ready Mix Concrete, Inc Plant 1 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ernst Enterprise of Georgia, Inc Monroe 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanford Sand and Gravel 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Havenwood Concrete 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dakota Granite 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Truss & Components 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell SD Truss 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Touch Plant 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Medical Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rc - Harrisburg Pa 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Osos Grocery Outlet 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Westbury, NY 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winsupply of Shelton 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollidaysburg Hometown Market 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #31 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottsbluff Public Schools 41 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.