Grocery stores · South Dakota

Kessler's Inc

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

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kessler's Inc runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Kessler's Inc: 4.6 TCR = 136% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kessler's Inc safety composite

Kessler's Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Kessler's Inc: 3.5 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Kessler's Inc's TCR rose 2.4 from 3.5 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #19/32
  • PHOTO Store #2
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kessler's Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kessler's Inc averages 4.6 TCR (136% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Kessler's Inc TCR series: 2021=3.5 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Kessler's Inc falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 32 Grocery stores employers in South Dakota.

Kessler's Inc (225 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kessler's Inc
Kessler's Inc (225 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Kessler's Inc has more employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.9 5.9 8 0 0
2023 4.1 2.0 6 0 0
2022 5.1 3.2 8 0 0
2021 3.5 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SD · Aberdeen

30,654 Grocery stores 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 Store #2 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10057 Greenwich 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne's Foods Plus-Webster 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hub City, 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 Wayne's Foods Plus-Webster 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Met-L-Tec LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UES-SEA 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tennessee Aluminum Processors, INC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE JTM Foods LLC 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gainesville 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernon Hills Park District 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Miami - 0655 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.