Lumber retailing yards · South Dakota

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish

Spearfish, SD · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade F.

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish: 9.0 TCR = 264% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish safety composite

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 Spearfish: 4.7 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2022

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish's TCR rose 7.0 from 4.7 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Spearfish, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 264% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO 7167 L&W Supply
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7167 L&W Supply (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knecht Home Center of Spearfish in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knecht Home Center of Spearfish averages 9.0 TCR (264% 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 Spearfish TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=13.5 · 2022=11.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Knecht Home Center of Spearfish falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #6 safest of 9 Lumber retailing yards employers in South Dakota.

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish (58 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Spearfish
Knecht Home Center of Spearfish (58 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Knecht Home Center of Spearfish 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 11.7 8.4 7 0 0
2021 13.5 10.1 8 0 0
2020 10.4 7.0 6 0 0
2017 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.7 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · SD · Spearfish

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Spearfish, 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 7167 L&W Supply 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opustone LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond Lumber Company - Auburn 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The BIG Co. Inc. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cable Communication Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Tom's Sandwiches 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poet Bioprocessing-Chancellor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE WeatherStar 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1543 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1543 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monument Health Spearfish Hospital 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Health Spearfish Hospital 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #138 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 541303-Cen-Carrier Anx 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 215239-Leesville Po 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 164374-Lawrenceville Po 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hanover, Pa 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Naramake Elementary 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grande Ronde Retirement 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE ODW - Handgards 58 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.