Steel wool manufacturing · South Dakota

DeGeest Corporation

Tea, SD · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeGeest Corporation runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel wool manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

DeGeest Corporation: 12.6 TCR = 382% of Steel wool manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeGeest Corporation safety composite

DeGeest Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

DeGeest Corporation: 11.3 → 19.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

DeGeest Corporation's TCR rose 7.7 from 11.3 in 2022 to 19.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Tea, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 382% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Industrial Stripping…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Stripping Services LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeGeest Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeGeest Corporation averages 12.6 TCR (382% of the Steel wool manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DeGeest Corporation TCR series: 2022=11.3 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=19.1 · BLS 3.3

Where DeGeest Corporation falls in its industry

827 Steel wool manufacturing establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
DeGeest Corporation (66 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate DeGeest Corporation
DeGeest Corporation (66 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DeGeest Corporation has fewer employees than the Steel wool manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 19.1 8.9 15 0 0
2023 7.5 3.0 5 0 0
2022 11.3 4.9 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · SD · Tea

827 Steel wool manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 17 employers in Tea, 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 Industrial Stripping Services LLC 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Microflex Inc 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri Drain Corporation 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clyde Machines 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RP Constructors, LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorlien Electric, Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE POET Bioprocessing- Chancellor 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDS Mfg. Co., Inc. 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Integrations 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scherer Inc. 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 192 TEA 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeGeest Steel Works Co 39 FTE
NAT-TCR The Brightonian 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1119 - NSM Palisades 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North Shore Place 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Building Services LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowling Green 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratford Feedyard 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reagens USA 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartech Greenville 66 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.