Home centers, building materials · South Dakota

HomeTown Building Center, Inc.

Name: HomeTown Building Center, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Watertown, SD · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade F.

HomeTown Building Center, Inc.: 7.8 TCR = 230% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. safety composite

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2024

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. injury rate improved

HomeTown Building Center, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.6 from 5.8 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2021=17.3 · 2022=4.0 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 230% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #10/18
PHOTO 6230 WINDHAM
BOOK 4y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6230 WINDHAM (0.0 TCR gap)

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6230 WINDHAM

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1552 LOWE S OF

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2807-1663

7.8
2807-2248

7.8

What this shows HomeTown Building Center, Inc. averages 7.8 TCR (230% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2021=17.3 · 2022=4 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.4

Where HomeTown Building Center, Inc. falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Home centers, building materia employers in South Dakota.

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HomeTown Building Center, Inc. has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024	4.2	4.2	1
2022	4.0	4.0	1
2021	17.3	4.3	4
2016	5.8	5.8	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · SD · Watertown

6,309 Home centers, building materials 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	6230 WINDHAM	NORTH WINDHAM, CT	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1552 LOWE S OF GILROY CA	GILROY, CA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2807-1663	KINGSTON, MA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2807-2248	SEAFORD, DE	7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station	ELKTON	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Black Hills Electric Cooperative	CUSTER	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southwoods	HARRISBURG	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Timmons Construction Inc.	BROOKINGS	28 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Prairie Lakes Healthcare System	Watertown	611 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Prairie Lakes Healthcare	Watertown	601 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Terex - Watertown	Watertown	598 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1500	Watertown	352 FTE
NAT-TCR	UPMC McKeesport	Mckeesport, PA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roberts	Roberts, WI	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hunter Truck - Allentown	Breinigsville, PA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Police Department	Bloomington, IN	7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Family Tree Rehabilitation Services	Aurora, OH	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amarillo Lube Plant	Amarillo, TX	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BK-Kahului #603	Kahului, HI	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valu Home Center #23	North Tonawanda, NY	28 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, 2022, 2021, 2016. 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.