Lumber retailing yards · South Dakota

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade D.

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City: 5.9 TCR = 174% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City safety composite

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City: 6.4 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2022

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City's TCR rose 4.9 from 6.4 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 174% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Trusco LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trusco LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knecht Home Center of Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knecht Home Center of Rapid City averages 5.9 TCR (174% of the Lumber retailing yards BLS benchmark).

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

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=8.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=11.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Knecht Home Center of Rapid City falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Lumber retailing yards employers in South Dakota.

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City (88 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Knecht Home Center of Rapid City
Knecht Home Center of Rapid City (88 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Knecht Home Center of Rapid City has more employees than the Lumber retailing yards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2022 11.3 4.7 12 0 0
2021 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.6 0.9 9 0 0
2016 6.4 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · SD · Rapid City

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid City, 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 Trusco LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARTER LUMBER 388 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Creek Siding 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prattville Russell Do It Center 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CREATIVE SURFACES INC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESCO -Watertown 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Store 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beal Distributing, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Crest 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Guardian Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2039-White Sox - Major 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #126 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6299-MN006 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Healthcare Center of Bella Vista 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auberge at Onion Creek 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encore at Avalon Park 88 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 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.