Concrete batch plants (including temporary) · South Dakota

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc.

Name: Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sioux Falls, SD · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Concrete batch plants (including temporary) workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Concrete batch plants (including temporary) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. safety composite

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−0.6

2022→2024

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. injury rate improved

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc.'s TCR fell 0.6 from 5.9 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/11
PHOTO Viking Ready Mix/Han…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Ready Mix/Hanford (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Concrete batch plants (including temporary) BLS benchmark).

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. falls in its industry

1,316 Concrete batch plants (includi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 #5 safest of 11 Concrete batch plants (includi employers in South Dakota.

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Buffalo Ridge Concrete Inc. has more employees than the Concrete batch plants (including tempora median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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	Injuries
2024	5.3	2
2023	7.7	2
2022	5.9	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,316 Concrete batch plants (including temporary) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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	Viking Ready Mix/Hanford	HANFORD, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Lar of Morrisville	FAIRLESS HILLS, PA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	008 Midway	ST PAUL, MN	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	S&S Concrete & Materials, LLC - Pass Canyon Road	BULLHEAD CITY, AZ	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Northern Sky Dairy, LLP - NSDL289	BRUCE	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Advanced Sunflower, LLC	HURON	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Associated Milk Producers Inc (Hoven)	HOVEN	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	G.A. Murdock, Inc.	MADISON	37 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals	Sioux Falls	6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Sioux Falls	4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Foods	Sioux Falls	3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera McKennan Hospital	Sioux Falls	3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR	0624 - Holland Mall Drive	Holland, OH	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Megawall	Comstock Park, MI	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Robert Nickerson Farms, Inc.	Wellton, AZ	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Key Fasteners Corp	Berne, IN	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Harris Brothers Roofing Company	Charleston, WV	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Diamond Metal Fabricators Inc.	Acworth, GA	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale Niagara Memory Care	North Tonawanda, NY	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Asphalt Paving, LLC	Tampa, FL	37 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, 2022. 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.