Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · South Dakota

Highway Improvement, Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway Improvement, Inc. runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

Highway Improvement, Inc.: 8.3 TCR = 297% of Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Improvement, Inc. safety composite

Highway Improvement, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.2

2016→2020

Highway Improvement, Inc. injury rate improved

Highway Improvement, Inc.'s TCR fell 11.2 from 16.4 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.4 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 297% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO Comanche Constructio…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comanche Construction of GA LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway Improvement, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway Improvement, Inc. averages 8.3 TCR (297% of the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

Highway Improvement, Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.4 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=5.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Highway Improvement, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Repair, highway, road, street, employers in South Dakota.

Highway Improvement, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Highway Improvement, Inc.
Highway Improvement, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highway Improvement, Inc. has fewer employees than the Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.2 0.0 0 1 0
2019 5.9 5.9 0 1 0
2018 6.3 0.0 0 1 0
2017 7.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 16.4 6.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SD · Sioux Falls

4,078 Repair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 Comanche Construction of GA LLC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. DeVincentis Construction, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.V. Lucas 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SR 15 (88A) CSVT River Bridge 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jackrabbit Family Farms, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Engineering Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Excavating, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 163 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mifflin Court 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #40 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BHA 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE EZ Systems 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shasta Fire Protection, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Unen Miersma Propane 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smithfield Direct- Detroit 22 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.