Applicators, wood, manufacturing · South Dakota

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks

Name: Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks Workplace Safety Data
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Mitchell, SD · ~95 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks safety composite

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks: 4.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2019

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.1 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

DART 5.8 DART
RANK #2/6
PHOTO SCHU EAST
BOOK 3y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SCHU EAST (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in South Dakota.

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks (95 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019	5.8	5.8	5	0
2018	6.3	5.3	6	0
2017	4.1	4.1	3	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · SD · Mitchell

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SCHU EAST	RANDOM LAKE, WI	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lumbermen's Finishing	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lignetics of Idaho	KOOTENAI, IA	5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Haessly Lumber Sales Co.	MARIETTA, OH	5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CM17HCCllc	SIOUX FALLS	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RDU, LLC dba Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks	MITCHELL	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Alkota Cleaning Systems Inc	ALCESTER	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Load King Elk Point, South Dakota	ELK POINT	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera Queen of Peace Hospital	Mitchell	376 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TKI Mitchell	Mitchell	353 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TKI Mitchell West	Mitchell	343 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Muth Electric, Inc.	Mitchell	318 FTE
NAT-TCR	Clarkskville Footwear	Hot Springs, AR	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fox 5/Wnyw-Tv	New York, NY	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Durant	Durant, OK	5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0020 2590	Carrollton, TX	5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Magnolia Drive Operations	Cape May Court House, NJ	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fas Lal	Lakeland, FL	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Transglobal Door	Carey, OH	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Heritage Hall East	Agawam, MA	95 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: 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.