Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, production and distribution · Montana

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT

Billings, MT · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, production and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT: 5.0 TCR = 420% of Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, production and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT safety composite

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT: 4.9 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2021

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.9 in 2019 to 7.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Billings, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 420% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Fontana Base - Bld: …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fontana Base - Bld: 0461 - 15 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT averages 5.0 TCR (420% of the Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, production and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=7.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT falls in its industry

1,153 Gas, mixed natural and manufac establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Gas, mixed natural and manufac employers in Montana.

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT (42 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT
Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT (42 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT has fewer employees than the Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, pro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021 7.6 7.6 2 1 0
2020 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2019 4.9 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · MT · Billings

1,153 Gas, mixed natural and manufactured, production and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 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 Fontana Base - Bld: 0461 - 15 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Fe Service Center 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BREA STATION - 15 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OR-Sunset 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heorot Power 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE WBI Energy Corrosion Services Billings Operations 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Electric of MT, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Falls Mill 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Hospital 2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Vincent Healthcare 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Downtown Campus 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Lutheran Ministries 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Synergy Equipment Corp. dba Bobcat of Orlando 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Village Creek Rehab and Nursing 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuzzins Bowden Hospitality II, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beech Grove Meadows 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Care Center 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weldship Texas 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Fittings Corp. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quick-Way Manufactruing 42 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.