Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

BMC-Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BMC-Rapid City runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

BMC-Rapid City: 3.0 TCR = 135% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BMC-Rapid City safety composite

BMC-Rapid City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

BMC-Rapid City held a steady TCR band

BMC-Rapid City's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.6 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.6 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #9/16
  • PHOTO Meade Equipment- Kno…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meade Equipment- Knoxville (0.0 TCR gap)

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BMC-Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BMC-Rapid City averages 3.0 TCR (135% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

BMC-Rapid City TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where BMC-Rapid City falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #9 safest of 16 Construction machinery and equ employers in South Dakota.

BMC-Rapid City (70 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BMC-Rapid City
BMC-Rapid City (70 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

BMC-Rapid City has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer 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
2020 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2019 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · SD · Rapid City

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers 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 Meade Equipment- Knoxville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Myersville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KMI NORTH BRANCH 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edge Construction Supply Inc 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Valley Energy - Colman 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lind Exco, Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medgene 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls Truck & Trailer Inc 70 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 Meridian Brick-Mineral Wells West-Meridian 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Macomb-Oakland Regional Center, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 583 - Las Vegas-Int Branch 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond - Visalia 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain Operations Distribution Center / Transformer Shop 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE VAM USA Miller Rd. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Domestic Uniform Rental 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uncle Giuseppe's of Port Washington, Inc. 70 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.