Dimension stone mining or quarrying · South Dakota

Dakota Stone Inc

Milbank, SD · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Stone Inc runs at 883% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dimension stone mining or quarrying workplace, earning a grade F.

Dakota Stone Inc: 16.8 TCR = 883% of Dimension stone mining or quarrying BLS 1.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Stone Inc safety composite

Dakota Stone Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.2

2022→2024

Dakota Stone Inc injury rate improved

Dakota Stone Inc's TCR fell 11.2 from 19.5 in 2022 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 22.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=19.5 · 2023=22.4 · 2024=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 212311 · Milbank, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 883% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK P11
  • PHOTO Kasota Stone Fabrica…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kasota Stone Fabricators (0.3 TCR gap)

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Dakota Stone Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Stone Inc averages 16.8 TCR (883% of the Dimension stone mining or quarrying BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Stone Inc TCR series: 2022=19.5 · 2023=22.4 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 1.9

Where Dakota Stone Inc falls in its industry

27 Dimension stone mining or quar establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dakota Stone Inc (94 employees, TCR 16.8) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 17 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 20406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Stone Inc
Dakota Stone Inc (94 employees, TCR 16.8) among 16 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Dakota Stone Inc has more employees than the Dimension stone mining or quarrying median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.3 8.3 7 0 0
2023 22.4 11.2 22 0 0
2022 19.5 5.9 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

212311 · SD · Milbank

27 Dimension stone mining or quarrying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 14 employers in Milbank, 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 Kasota Stone Fabricators 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Granite 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napa Quarry 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldspring - Raymond 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vermeer Freeman Manufacturing 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturdevant Companies - 50 SAE Warehouse 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Health Avera Mckennan Hospital 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE CM17HCCllc 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc. 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hardware Distributing Co - Distribution Center 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Milbank Area Hospital 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avantara Milbank 76 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlos Lopez & Associates LLC, ABH 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cobou - Boulder 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Neighborhood at Paducah 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecumen prairie Lodge 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE County Waste LLC 2 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winston-Salem 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richland Glass Company, LLC 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Randolph Health Services 94 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.

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

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