Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · South Dakota

Curt - 141

Brandon, SD · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Curt - 141 runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Curt - 141: 6.8 TCR = 126% of Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Curt - 141 safety composite

Curt - 141 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−4.0

2020→2024

Curt - 141 injury rate improved

Curt - 141's TCR fell 4.0 from 8.8 in 2020 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.8 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Brandon, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO TitanX Engine Coolin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TitanX Engine Cooling, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Curt - 141 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Curt - 141 averages 6.8 TCR (126% of the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Curt - 141 TCR series: 2020=8.8 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Curt - 141 falls in its industry

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Hitches, trailer, automotive, employers in South Dakota.

Curt - 141 (95 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Curt - 141
Curt - 141 (95 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Curt - 141 has fewer employees than the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 4.8 3.6 4 0 0
2020 8.8 2.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · SD · Brandon

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 18 employers in Brandon, 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 TitanX Engine Cooling, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MHT Luxury Alloys-Rancho 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3394 Saturn Wheel 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2/4 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CM17HCCllc 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE RDU, LLC dba Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alkota Cleaning Systems Inc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Company 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Brandon 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan - Brandon 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan Motors - Brandon 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Lear Corporation - Farwell 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nosco - Bridgeview 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR El Paso Ltach Partners Lp 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Window Systems 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Hills Healthcare & Rehabilitation 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presbyterian Residential Community, Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Care Oatfield Estates 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Organ Sharing Alliance - San Antonio 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: 2024, 2020. 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.