General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · South Dakota

Freedom Enterprises

Watertown, SD · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedom Enterprises runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Freedom Enterprises: 4.8 TCR = 106% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedom Enterprises safety composite

Freedom Enterprises scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Freedom Enterprises: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2022

Freedom Enterprises's TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 9.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO LFY
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LFY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedom Enterprises in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedom Enterprises averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Freedom Enterprises TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=14.5 · 2022=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Freedom Enterprises falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 General freight trucking, long employers in South Dakota.

Freedom Enterprises (19 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Freedom Enterprises
Freedom Enterprises (19 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Freedom Enterprises has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 9.3 4.7 2 0 0
2021 14.5 9.7 3 0 0
2020 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · SD · Watertown

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR LFY 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manning Transfer Terminal 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR XSB 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucson 298 4.8 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 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 Big Y Foods, Inc. East Longmeadow 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Maverick Ft Smith, AR 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Broulim's Rexburg 4.8 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.