Electrical signs manufacturing · South Dakota

ESCO -Watertown

Watertown, SD · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ESCO -Watertown runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrical signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

ESCO -Watertown: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Electrical signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ESCO -Watertown safety composite

ESCO -Watertown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

ESCO -Watertown: 1.2 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

ESCO -Watertown's TCR rose 6.9 from 1.2 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO George Lay Signs, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: George Lay Signs, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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ESCO -Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ESCO -Watertown averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Electrical signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ESCO -Watertown TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=3.3 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where ESCO -Watertown falls in its industry

405 Electrical signs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Electrical signs manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

ESCO -Watertown (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate ESCO -Watertown
ESCO -Watertown (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

ESCO -Watertown has more employees than the Electrical signs manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.1 2.0 8 0 0
2023 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2021 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · SD · Watertown

405 Electrical signs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 George Lay Signs, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Visual Branding 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everbrite LLC - South Milwaukee 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DON BELL SIGNS, LLC 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CREATIVE SURFACES INC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Store 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beal Distributing, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knecht Home Center of Rapid City 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Xero Solar 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Triton Primary School 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Edmund Jenschke Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CP&P Oakboro Pipe 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benson's Heating & Air Conditioning 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc. - Chantilly, VA 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Giant Incorporated 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE 733 CAT Pontiac 88 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, 2021, 2020, 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.