Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · South Dakota

Dakota Bodies LLC

Watertown, SD · ~321 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Bodies LLC runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dakota Bodies LLC: 17.3 TCR = 524% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Bodies LLC safety composite

Dakota Bodies LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−0.4

2018→2019

Dakota Bodies LLC injury rate improved

Dakota Bodies LLC's TCR fell 0.4 from 17.5 in 2018 to 17.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=17.5 · 2019=17.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 524% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Campbell Internation…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Campbell International Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Bodies LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Bodies LLC averages 17.3 TCR (524% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Bodies LLC TCR series: 2018=17.5 · 2019=17.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota Bodies LLC falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in South Dakota.

Dakota Bodies LLC (321 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Bodies LLC
Dakota Bodies LLC (321 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Dakota Bodies LLC has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 17.1 9.5 60 3 0
2018 17.5 5.0 60 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · SD · Watertown

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 Campbell International Inc 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Isometrics, Inc. - 1 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Truckweld Inc. 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Maritime Services of NJ, Inc. 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brink Constructors, Inc. 321 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. 320 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1685 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cimpl's, LLC 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Savor Street Foods, Inc 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cemcon Inc. 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego Home Health Care 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City ARC Warehouse 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fayette 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eaton County Health & Rehabilitation Services 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omega Morgan 321 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halliburton ICC 321 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. 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.