Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying · South Dakota

Dave's Construction, LLC

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Sioux Falls, SD · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dave's Construction, LLC runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying workplace, earning a grade C.

Dave's Construction, LLC: 2.7 TCR = 95% of Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dave's Construction, LLC safety composite

Dave's Construction, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.3

2023→2024

Dave's Construction, LLC injury rate improved

Dave's Construction, LLC's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 95% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #7/10
PHOTO Reed & Reed
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reed & Reed (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Dave's Construction, LLC averages 2.7 TCR (95% of the Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying BLS benchmark).

Dave's Construction, LLC TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Dave's Construction, LLC falls in its industry

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Underground cable (e.g., cable employers in South Dakota.

Dave's Construction, LLC (42 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Dave's Construction, LLC has fewer employees than the Underground cable (e.g., cable televisio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2023	5.3	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,605 Underground cable (e.g., cable television, electricity, telephone) laying 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Reed & Reed	WOOLWICH, ME	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tilson Technology Management, Inc. Henrietta	HENRIETTA, NY	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ANCST - Charleston- SC	NORTH CHARLESTON, SC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clackams, OR Office CS	CLACKAMS, OR	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Rosebud Concrete Inc.	WINNER	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sioux Falls Location	SIOUX FALLS	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Poet Biorefining - Groton	GROTON	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	C-Lock Inc	RAPID CITY	42 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals	Sioux Falls	6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Sioux Falls	4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Foods	Sioux Falls	3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera McKennan Hospital	Sioux Falls	3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR	EMS - Deephaven Woods	Deephaven, MN	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Great Dane Jonesboro	Jonesboro, AR	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Redwood Distribution Center	Spartanburg, SC	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Integrated Technical Systems, Inc.	Wallingford, CT	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	AMI Metals KS	Wichita, KS	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mill Creek Lumber Kansas- Wichita	Wichita, KS	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Liberty Arena	Williamsport, PA	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DiMare Fresh, Inc. Scranton	Scranton, PA	42 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.

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