Weldments manufacturing · South Dakota

DeGeest Steel Works Co

Tea, SD · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeGeest Steel Works Co runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Weldments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

DeGeest Steel Works Co: 9.4 TCR = 284% of Weldments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeGeest Steel Works Co safety composite

DeGeest Steel Works Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.8

2016→2020

DeGeest Steel Works Co injury rate improved

DeGeest Steel Works Co's TCR fell 13.8 from 16.1 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.1 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Tea, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 284% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Imperial Systems
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Systems (0.1 TCR gap)

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DeGeest Steel Works Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeGeest Steel Works Co averages 9.4 TCR (284% of the Weldments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DeGeest Steel Works Co TCR series: 2016=16.1 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where DeGeest Steel Works Co falls in its industry

449 Weldments manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Weldments manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

DeGeest Steel Works Co (39 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 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 Steel Works Co
DeGeest Steel Works Co (39 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DeGeest Steel Works Co has fewer employees than the Weldments 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
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 9.6 7.2 4 0 0
2016 16.1 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · SD · Tea

449 Weldments 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 Imperial Systems 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Manufacturing Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLEAN TRL 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peirce Welding & Fabricating Inc 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck & Hofer Construction 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rangel Construction Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Continental Restoration Co., Inc. South Dakota 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell - 60-01 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Integrations 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sorlien Electric, Inc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeGeest Corporation 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scherer Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-TCR Beck Cabinet Company 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SUNNYVALE VW B&B Saab 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR C. and D. Distributors, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Avita of Newburyport 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kepler Masonry 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&B Products, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCAT 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Chopper #3803 39 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.