Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

Lake Preston Soil Center

Lake Preston, SD · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Preston Soil Center runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Lake Preston Soil Center: 1.5 TCR = 70% of Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Preston Soil Center safety composite

Lake Preston Soil Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2024

Lake Preston Soil Center injury rate improved

Lake Preston Soil Center's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Lake Preston, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/16
  • PHOTO Wellington, TX
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wellington, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Preston Soil Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Preston Soil Center averages 1.5 TCR (70% of the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Preston Soil Center TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Lake Preston Soil Center falls in its industry

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 16 Fertilizer and fertilizer mate employers in South Dakota.

Lake Preston Soil Center (19 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Preston Soil Center
Lake Preston Soil Center (19 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Lake Preston Soil Center has fewer employees than the Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2016 4.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · SD · Lake Preston

1,202 Fertilizer and fertilizer materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Lake Preston, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wellington, TX 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartwell East NE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Algona 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 70536 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall Headquarters 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raeco Builders 1 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City #066 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 21st Century Mfg. 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Preston Farm Supply 11 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Commercial - 23 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Biz Nursery and Landscaping 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Staten Island Corrugated LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oconee 1.5 TCR

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, 2019, 2018, 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.