Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · South Dakota

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi

Rapid City, SD · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi: 3.9 TCR = 139% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi safety composite

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.1

2022→2024

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi injury rate improved

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi's TCR fell 6.1 from 6.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Guyer Brothers, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guyer Brothers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi averages 3.9 TCR (139% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi TCR series: 2022=6.2 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in South Dakota.

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi (67 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi
Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi (67 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3 0 0
2023 5.5 2.7 4 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · SD · Rapid City

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction 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 Guyer Brothers, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellington WWTP 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arthur R. Henry, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Construction Company, Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4080 - Dakota Panel Plant 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4083 - Dakota Panel Pick & Assembly 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poet Biorefining- Chancellor 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Plains Ethanol. LLC d.b.a Poet Biorefining- Chancellor 67 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 Guyer Brothers, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Belleville Shoe South Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR United Memorial Hospital 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenfield-21 Kenwood Street 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lewisburg East, OH 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Frazier Co.-Main 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pike Indiana Statewide Operations 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hitz Memorial Home 67 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.