Speed changers (i.e., power transmission equipment) manufacturing · South Dakota

Hub City, Inc.

Aberdeen, SD · ~225 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hub City, Inc. runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Speed changers (i.e., power transmission equipment) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hub City, Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Speed changers (i.e., power transmission equipment) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hub City, Inc. safety composite

Hub City, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hub City, Inc.: 1.8 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2019

Hub City, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 1.8 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO Boston Gear
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boston Gear (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hub City, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hub City, Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Speed changers (i.e., power transmission equipment) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hub City, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hub City, Inc. falls in its industry

106 Speed changers (i.e., power tr establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hub City, Inc. (225 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hub City, Inc.
Hub City, Inc. (225 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Hub City, Inc. has more employees than the Speed changers (i.e., power transmission median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 3.4 0.5 7 0 0
2018 2.4 1.6 6 0 0
2017 6.2 5.3 12 1 0
2016 1.8 0.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · SD · Aberdeen

106 Speed changers (i.e., power transmission equipment) 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 Boston Gear 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nord Gear Corp 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oliver Gear Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEW-Eurodrive, Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kessler's Inc 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartronics Watertown LLC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Bodies Watertown 224 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweetman Construction Company d/b/a Concrete Materials 223 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 Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors--Main 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtis Bay 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR La Mariposa Head Start Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Packaging Salt Lake City 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Santa Rosa - Recreation & Parks Department 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 160 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Givaudan Devon 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plexus Manufacturing Solutions - Appleton 2 225 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: 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.