Employer · South Dakota

Blue Stem Livestock

Mitchell, SD · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Stem Livestock runs at 3288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Stem Livestock: 16.4 TCR = 3288% of industry BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Stem Livestock safety composite

Blue Stem Livestock scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 16.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−18.8

2023→2024

Blue Stem Livestock injury rate improved

Blue Stem Livestock's TCR fell 18.8 from 25.8 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 25.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=25.8 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541611 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 3288% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Sow Country LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sow Country LLC (0.8 TCR gap)

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Blue Stem Livestock in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Stem Livestock averages 16.4 TCR (3288% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Stem Livestock TCR series: 2023=25.8 · 2024=7 · BLS 0.5

Where Blue Stem Livestock falls in its industry

128 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 industry employers in South Dakota.

Blue Stem Livestock (23 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Stem Livestock
Blue Stem Livestock (23 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Blue Stem Livestock has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 7.0 3.5 1 1 0
2023 25.8 25.8 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541611 · SD · Mitchell

128 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, 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 Sow Country LLC 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Banner Farms 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connecticut 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goose Lake 2 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Ag Center 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menno 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosebud Electric Cooperative 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Queen of Peace Hospital 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell West 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Nhtwi - Twin Mountain 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 145 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR VATD - Tech-24 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Oregon - Plant 910 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Syracuse Feedyard 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miles Ahead Technology LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE St George Ut Sales Center 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okalt - Altus 23 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: 2024, 2023. 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.