Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · South Dakota

Lien Transportation Company

Aberdeen, SD · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lien Transportation Company runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Lien Transportation Company: 3.3 TCR = 116% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lien Transportation Company safety composite

Lien Transportation Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lien Transportation Company: 2.8 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Lien Transportation Company's TCR rose 1.7 from 2.8 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Omni Contracting Sol…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Omni Contracting Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lien Transportation Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lien Transportation Company averages 3.3 TCR (116% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Lien Transportation Company TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Lien Transportation Company falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in South Dakota.

Lien Transportation Company (38 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Lien Transportation Company
Lien Transportation Company (38 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Lien Transportation Company has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · SD · Aberdeen

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors 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 Omni Contracting Solutions 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Civil Werx LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR B.L. Brown Construction & Excavation, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Inc 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Branch Office 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huff Construction Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Halme, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&R Contracting Inc 38 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 Avient Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vital Earth Resources, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR David Lundberg Building & Roofing Contractor 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NM Niagara Falls 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honey Holding I Ltd dba Honey Solutions 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 217 Seminole Ct. Marco Island, FL 34145 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Tooling Systems Inc 38 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.