Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · South Dakota

Hub City Energy, LLC

Aberdeen, SD · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hub City Energy, LLC runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hub City Energy, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hub City Energy, LLC safety composite

Hub City Energy, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Hub City Energy, LLC: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Hub City Energy, LLC's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO Southwest Iowa Renew…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hub City Energy, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hub City Energy, LLC averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hub City Energy, LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hub City Energy, LLC falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #11 safest of 23 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in South Dakota.

Hub City Energy, LLC (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hub City Energy, LLC
Hub City Energy, LLC (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hub City Energy, LLC has fewer employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing 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
2024 5.3 2.7 2 0 0
2023 11.3 8.5 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · SD · Aberdeen

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, 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 Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining Corning 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alto Pekin, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River United Energy, LLC 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Howard Farmers Coop 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHERN ELECTRIC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tru-Form Construction, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid Packaging Company Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Lovazzano Hvac, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SB Houston 17 LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0032 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at New Bridge Medical Center Food 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Acha Construction 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE A & A Roofing Co., Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Brothers Lumber 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creston Quality Inn 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.