Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

C & B Operations Freeman

Freeman, SD · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C & B Operations Freeman runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

C & B Operations Freeman: 3.4 TCR = 156% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C & B Operations Freeman safety composite

C & B Operations Freeman scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

C & B Operations Freeman: 3.1 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

C & B Operations Freeman's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.1 in 2023 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Freeman, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 156% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO H & R Agripower Was…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H & R Agripower Washington IN (0.0 TCR gap)

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C & B Operations Freeman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C & B Operations Freeman averages 3.4 TCR (156% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

C & B Operations Freeman TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.2

Where C & B Operations Freeman falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in South Dakota.

C & B Operations Freeman (27 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 C & B Operations Freeman
C & B Operations Freeman (27 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

C & B Operations Freeman has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · SD · Freeman

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Freeman, 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 H & R Agripower Washington IN 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-Service Caldwell Location 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rotary Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torgerson's - Havre 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Continental Resources - Buffalo, SD 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Valley Energy - Brandon 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build - Sioux Falls 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Contracting LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeman Regional Health Services 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vermeer Corporation 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vermeer Freeman Manufacturing 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vermeer Corporation - Freeman 87 FTE
NAT-TCR 300000170783552 - WI-Green Bay-Glory 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170857216 - PA-Harrisburg-Operating Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legend Companies 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 138 Harvester 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PW Athletic Mfg. Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solid Concrete Service, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Inn & Suites 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Brushy Creek 27 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.