Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · South Dakota

Dakota Bodies Watertown

Watertown, SD · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Bodies Watertown runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dakota Bodies Watertown: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Bodies Watertown safety composite

Dakota Bodies Watertown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Dakota Bodies Watertown: 5.9 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Dakota Bodies Watertown's TCR rose 4.2 from 5.9 in 2023 to 10.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Royal West - Shoemak…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royal West - Shoemakersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Bodies Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Bodies Watertown averages 8.0 TCR (242% 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 Watertown TCR series: 2023=5.9 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota Bodies Watertown falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #5 safest of 6 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in South Dakota.

Dakota Bodies Watertown (224 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Watertown
Dakota Bodies Watertown (224 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Dakota Bodies Watertown 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
2024 10.1 6.2 26 0 0
2023 5.9 3.2 13 0 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 Royal West - Shoemakersville 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independent Protection Company dba Turtle Top 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knapheide Equipment Company 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supreme Southeast 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sweetman Construction Company d/b/a Concrete Materials 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hub City, Inc. 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kessler's Inc 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell SD 222 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 DeBourgh Manufacturing 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Bottle Company, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Prairie Dairy LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GTA Containers, LLC. 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edscha Automotive Michigan 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Company Chicago 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Glen Health Care Center 224 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Ocala 224 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.