Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe · South Dakota

Dakota Tube Inc.

Watertown, SD · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Tube Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe workplace, earning a grade B.

Dakota Tube Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Tube Inc. safety composite

Dakota Tube Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dakota Tube Inc.: 0.9 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2018

Dakota Tube Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.9 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P62
  • PHOTO Tube Specialties Co.…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tube Specialties Co. Troutdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Tube Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Tube Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Tube Inc. TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota Tube Inc. falls in its industry

337 Bends, pipe, made from purchas establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dakota Tube Inc. (200 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Tube Inc.
Dakota Tube Inc. (200 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Dakota Tube Inc. has more employees than the Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 3.8 0.4 9 0 0
2017 0.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · SD · Watertown

337 Bends, pipe, made from purchased metal pipe 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 Tube Specialties Co. Troutdale 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Fabrication - Riverside 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OMT 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAM USA Miller Rd. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Twin City Fan & Blower Sunrise 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartan Fire - Brandon 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis Hospital 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Prairie Foods 1400 Plant 201 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 Rohr Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CN Caguas 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyundai-Dymos 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rayovac Dixon 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holland - ME 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens-Illinois Glass Portland N21 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radiometer 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE PepsiCo DC 200 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: 2018, 2017. 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.