Pest control services, agricultural · South Dakota

Howard Farmers Coop

Howard, SD · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Farmers Coop runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pest control services, agricultural workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard Farmers Coop: 10.1 TCR = 225% of Pest control services, agricultural BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Farmers Coop safety composite

Howard Farmers Coop scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Howard Farmers Coop: 2.6 → 17.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Howard Farmers Coop's TCR rose 15.0 from 2.6 in 2016 to 17.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Howard, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 225% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Hillendale Services,…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillendale Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Farmers Coop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Farmers Coop averages 10.1 TCR (225% of the Pest control services, agricultural BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Farmers Coop TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=8 · 2018=19.7 · 2019=6 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=11.3 · 2023=17.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Howard Farmers Coop falls in its industry

221 Pest control services, agricul establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Pest control services, agricul employers in South Dakota.

Howard Farmers Coop (31 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Farmers Coop
Howard Farmers Coop (31 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Howard Farmers Coop has fewer employees than the Pest control services, agricultural median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 17.7 0.0 5 0 0
2021 11.3 0.0 4 0 0
2020 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 19.7 8.4 7 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 3 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · SD · Howard

221 Pest control services, agricultural employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Howard, 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 Hillendale Services, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Flora Corp 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynes Knoxville 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAS Mattawa East 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTHERN ELECTRIC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tru-Form Construction, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid Packaging Company Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forum Communications Printing 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR PBM Graphics - SD 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Howard 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Farmers Coop Assn 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whispering Winds Senior Living 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Gilchrist Metal Fabricating 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stettler Supply Company 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Downey Base - Bld: 0360 - 15 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowbrook Health and Rehabilitation Center 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 29 S Stockwell Rd 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE PNCI Construction Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saxton Corporation of Albany 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reno Door & Trim 31 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.