Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · South Dakota

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, SD · ~13 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls: 2.3 TCR = 52% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls safety composite

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−5.8

2022→2024

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls injury rate improved

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls's TCR fell 5.8 from 6.4 in 2022 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO Bethlehem, PA - East…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bethlehem, PA - Easton Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls averages 2.3 TCR (52% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls TCR series: 2022=6.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Motor freight carrier, general employers in South Dakota.

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls (13 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls
Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls (13 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bison Transport USA - Sioux Falls has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SD · Sioux Falls

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bethlehem, PA - Easton Road 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Valley City Terminal 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCW INC-SAV 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTI- Chicago, IL 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 16 Rapid City, SD Warehouse 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Products Inc. 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbard Feeds 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Sioux Falls 14 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 Reliable Healthcare at Lakewood 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Univ at Albany Indigenous Quad 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack in the Box 4398 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1 Hollow Lane 2.3 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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