Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · South Dakota

Dakotaland Transportation Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~30 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Dakotaland Transportation Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. safety composite

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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

Dakotaland Transportation Inc.: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Dakotaland Transportation Inc.'s TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO RG Transportation Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RG Transportation Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakotaland Transportation Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakotaland Transportation Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Dakotaland Transportation Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Motor freight carrier, general employers in South Dakota.

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. (30 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakotaland Transportation Inc.
Dakotaland Transportation Inc. (30 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dakotaland Transportation Inc. has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 11.1 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.6 0.0 3 0 2
2019 14.8 14.8 4 0 0
2018 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2017 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SD · Sioux Falls

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 RG Transportation Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR E W Wylie Fargo 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Go-To Transport, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Terminal 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Warner Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.G. Oil Company #556 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Erectors, Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gray Construction Co 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR San Dieguito Water District 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TXS005 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaheim Post Collection 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice Care of South Carolina, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE SC Voc Rehab Berkeley 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williston Retail 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE So. Burlington Store 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Upgrade Installation 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.