Support Activities for Air Transportation · South Dakota

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~50 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City: 6.6 TCR = 146% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City: 4.1 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2020

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.1 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO DGS Aviation Service…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DGS Aviation Services : GPT - Gulfport (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City averages 6.6 TCR (146% of the Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=6 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #7 safest of 11 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in South Dakota.

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City (50 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City
DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City (50 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City has fewer employees than the Support Activities for Air Transportatio 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 6.0 6.0 4 0 0
2019 8.3 8.3 4 0 0
2018 8.0 8.0 4 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · SD · Rapid City

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid City, 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 DGS Aviation Services : GPT - Gulfport 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : ALB - Albany 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avmax 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation of GI, MYR 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mustang Seeds, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Rock & Sand Aberdeen 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Technology 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods - NPE Flandreau 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : GPT - Gulfport 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Hendersonville 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HDI Landing Gear USA Springfield Site 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : DLH - Duluth 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Girl Atlanta 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mwl LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE TS Springfield 50 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.