DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · South Dakota

Black Hills Oral Surgery

Rapid City, SD · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hills Oral Surgery runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Hills Oral Surgery: 10.2 TCR = 268% of DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hills Oral Surgery safety composite

Black Hills Oral Surgery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Black Hills Oral Surgery: 9.7 → 1714.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1714.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Black Hills Oral Surgery's TCR rose 1704.6 from 9.7 in 2017 to 1714.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621210 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 268% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Dental Associates Fa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dental Associates Family & Specialty Care LLC - Greenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Hills Oral Surgery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hills Oral Surgery averages 10.2 TCR (268% of the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hills Oral Surgery TCR series: 2017=9.7 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=400 · 2021=1714.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Black Hills Oral Surgery falls in its industry

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surge establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Black Hills Oral Surgery (34 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 Black Hills Oral Surgery
Black Hills Oral Surgery (34 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Black Hills Oral Surgery has fewer employees than the DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) office median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1714.3 0.0 12 0 0
2019 400.0 0.0 6 0 0
2018 10.7 0.0 3 1 0
2017 9.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621210 · SD · Rapid City

81 DDSs' (doctors of dental surgery) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) 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 Dental Associates Family & Specialty Care LLC - Greenville 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Dentalcare-Savage 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conestoga Oral Surgery 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akron Family Dental / West Chester Dentistry 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Dairy, LLC - LDL230 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Service Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAC Construction Co., Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Sioux City 34 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 131 St Cloud 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Livingston CareGivers 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ARYZTA - Newark 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Building Supply, Gulfport 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Croton Pullet 1 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE APS FireCo Oklahoma City 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE HSHS Shared Laundry 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVMATS Engine Support 34 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.