Electrical signs manufacturing · South Dakota

Persona Watertown Main

Watertown, SD · ~237 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Persona Watertown Main runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrical signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Persona Watertown Main: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Electrical signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Persona Watertown Main safety composite

Persona Watertown Main scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Persona Watertown Main: 2.6 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Persona Watertown Main's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.6 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Downing Enterprises,…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~237 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Downing Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Persona Watertown Main in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Persona Watertown Main averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Electrical signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Persona Watertown Main TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Persona Watertown Main falls in its industry

405 Electrical signs manufacturing establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #3 safest of 7 Electrical signs manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

Persona Watertown Main (237 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Persona Watertown Main
Persona Watertown Main (237 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Persona Watertown Main has more employees than the Electrical signs manufacturing 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
2023 3.6 2.4 9 0 0
2022 3.5 2.6 8 0 0
2021 3.7 0.9 8 0 0
2020 3.4 1.7 6 0 0
2019 2.3 0.9 4 1 0
2018 3.3 1.5 8 1 0
2017 2.6 1.8 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · SD · Watertown

405 Electrical signs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 Downing Enterprises, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Euless TX Manufacturing 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Everbrite LLC - South Milwaukee 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Sign Industries - Florida 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rapid Fire Protection INC 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2457 - Rapid City 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartan - Brandon 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Plaza 3 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR ODW - Ontario elf 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Canton 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Piantedosi Baking Company (240) 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SGS Retail - Moses Lake 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAES Power Contractors 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE wingate at silver lake 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Trailer Co. 237 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSL/BN Commons CCRC LLC 237 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.