Baseboards, metal, manufacturing · South Dakota

DeSCo Architectural, Inc.

De Smet, SD · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Baseboards, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

DeSCo Architectural, Inc.: 7.8 TCR = 237% of Baseboards, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. safety composite

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DeSCo Architectural, Inc.: 6.8 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2023

DeSCo Architectural, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 6.8 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332321 · De Smet, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 237% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Weiland Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weiland Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeSCo Architectural, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeSCo Architectural, Inc. averages 7.8 TCR (237% of the Baseboards, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=3.7 · 2021=10 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where DeSCo Architectural, Inc. falls in its industry

515 Baseboards, metal, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Baseboards, metal, manufacturi employers in South Dakota.

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DeSCo Architectural, Inc.
DeSCo Architectural, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1

DeSCo Architectural, Inc. has fewer employees than the Baseboards, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2022 11.1 3.7 3 0 0
2021 10.0 6.7 3 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2017 6.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332321 · SD · De Smet

515 Baseboards, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in De Smet, 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 Weiland Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4Front Engineered Solutions - Kenosha 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DLFX Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M2H2 Holdings LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Continental Resources - Buffalo, SD 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Valley Energy - Brandon 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build - Sioux Falls 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&W Contracting LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR UltiMed Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingston Pork LLC 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Roffers Concrete Construction inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Foxboro 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Park at Valley Village 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caron USA - North Dakota 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE United 358 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE VRS Tulsa, OK 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (PXH-6368) 27 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.