Employer · South Dakota

Gray Construction Co

Watertown, SD · ~30 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gray Construction Co runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Gray Construction Co: 9.4 TCR = 324% of industry BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gray Construction Co safety composite

Gray Construction Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Gray Construction Co: 0.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 31.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2023

Gray Construction Co's TCR rose 10.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 31.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 324% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO Pittsburgh
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pittsburgh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gray Construction Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gray Construction Co averages 9.4 TCR (324% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Gray Construction Co TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=31.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=7.3 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Gray Construction Co falls in its industry

4,692 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 industry employers in South Dakota.

Gray Construction Co (30 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Gray Construction Co
Gray Construction Co (30 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Gray Construction Co has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2023 10.1 6.7 2 1 0
2021 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 31.7 19.8 8 0 0
2017 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · SD · Watertown

4,692 industry 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 Pittsburgh 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GCM Contracting Solutions, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Randall Engineered Wall System 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Busboom&Rauh 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Warner Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.G. Oil Company #556 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Erectors, Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.M. Acoustical Tile Inc. 30 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 Lots Store #4025 ARCADIA, CA 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Transport 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AI Main 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Artimus Construction, inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Conns DC-Charlotte 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE IA - Corteva (Cedar Rapids) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waterford on Huebner 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corbin/London KY FXFE-CRB 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.