Long-distance telephone carriers, wired · South Dakota

Dell Rapids

Wall, SD · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dell Rapids runs at 380% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Long-distance telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Dell Rapids: 2.7 TCR = 380% of Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dell Rapids safety composite

Dell Rapids scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2016→2018

Dell Rapids injury rate improved

Dell Rapids's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Wall, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.7 · 380% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P34
  • PHOTO Liberty Levittown
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Levittown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dell Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dell Rapids averages 2.7 TCR (380% of the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Dell Rapids TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Dell Rapids falls in its industry

537 Long-distance telephone carrie establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dell Rapids (19 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dell Rapids
Dell Rapids (19 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Dell Rapids has fewer employees than the Long-distance telephone carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · SD · Wall

537 Long-distance telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 7 employers in Wall, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Liberty Levittown 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Communications Waco 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCN Telecom Services, LLC-Havertown 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARO / PRT - Tienda Plaza del Caribe 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall Headquarters 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raeco Builders 1 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City #066 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City (Contact Service Center) 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Telecommunications 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City (Technologies) 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City (Marketing) 32 FTE
NAT-TCR 2346 Shoppers-Manchester (Sv 052028) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chassix Benton Harbor 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Optical Laboritories Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 38-Richmond Terminal 2.7 TCR

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, 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.