Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing · South Dakota

Black Hills Truss & Components

Rapid City, SD · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hills Truss & Components runs at 329% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Hills Truss & Components: 10.9 TCR = 329% of Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hills Truss & Components safety composite

Black Hills Truss & Components scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Truss & Components: 2.6 → 20.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2021

Black Hills Truss & Components's TCR rose 18.1 from 2.6 in 2016 to 20.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 329% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO 4402 - Marshalltown …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4402 - Marshalltown Truss Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Hills Truss & Components in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hills Truss & Components averages 10.9 TCR (329% of the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hills Truss & Components TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=12.2 · 2020=8 · 2021=20.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Black Hills Truss & Components falls in its industry

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

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 7 Trusses, wood roof or floor, m employers in South Dakota.

Black Hills Truss & Components (41 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Hills Truss & Components
Black Hills Truss & Components (41 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Black Hills Truss & Components has fewer employees than the Trusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2021 20.7 15.5 8 0 0
2020 8.0 0.0 3 0 0
2017 12.2 2.5 5 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · SD · Rapid City

421 Trusses, wood roof or floor, 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 4402 - Marshalltown Truss Plant 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2019 Automated Products, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips Frame & Truss, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. Westmoreland Truss 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dakota Granite 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell SD Truss 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Touch Plant 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birdsall Sand & Gravel, Central Mix 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 Three Phase Electric Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2967-PA20 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt House Naples 5th Ave 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-NY10 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Stonebridge Ranch 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Alhambra 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inspired Living at Ivy Ridge 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cannabis Care Wellness Center LLC dba Smokey's 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 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.