Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant Wholesaler · South Dakota

Black Hills

Rapid City, SD · ~150 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hills runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant Wholesaler workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Hills: 5.5 TCR = 252% of Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant Wholesaler BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hills safety composite

Black Hills scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Black Hills: 4.9 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2023

Black Hills's TCR rose 3.7 from 4.9 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 252% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #4/14
  • PHOTO PBV-Goddard Parkway
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PBV-Goddard Parkway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hills averages 5.5 TCR (252% of the Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant Wholesaler BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hills TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=3 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=5 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Black Hills falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery&Related Products establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

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 14 Other Grocery&Related Products employers in South Dakota.

Black Hills (150 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Hills
Black Hills (150 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Black Hills has more employees than the Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2023 8.6 7.9 12 0 0
2022 5.0 3.6 7 0 0
2021 7.5 6.0 10 0 0
2020 3.0 2.2 4 0 0
2019 6.6 5.1 9 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 5 0 0
2016 4.9 4.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · SD · Rapid City

1,278 Other Grocery&Related Products Merchant Wholesaler 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 PBV-Goddard Parkway 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELLIJAY JASPER GA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RENO/LAKE TAHOE/FALLON NV 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPARTANBURG SC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thermobond Buildings Elk Point 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Billion Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram Fiat 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morris, Inc. 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Polymer Industries, Inc. 151 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 Wish Farms CA - Salinas 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Grill 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Truck Lines, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque NM Truss (Llano) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peters Chevrolet Inc 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE IP - Bell 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaumont Electric Company 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE LINC 4863 (Huber Logist. - M) 150 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.