Plastic Pipe · South Dakota

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche

Belle Fourche, SD · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plastic Pipe workplace, earning a grade B.

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Plastic Pipe BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche safety composite

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−3.6

2023→2024

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche injury rate improved

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Belle Fourche, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P81
  • PHOTO Ridgeline Pipe Manuf…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Plastic Pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche falls in its industry

332 Plastic Pipe establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche
Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche has fewer employees than the Plastic Pipe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · SD · Belle Fourche

332 Plastic Pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Belle Fourche, 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 Ridgeline Pipe Manufacturing 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemical-BV 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Eagle PCO 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Plastic Products, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aberdeen Building 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huff Construction Inc. (Corporate Office Setting) 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prunty Construction Company, Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belle Fourche Healthcare Community 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albany Farms 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belle South 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR CBH Feed and Ag 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Gage Products 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Coatings, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Group 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Constructors LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mgb Construction, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE LUG 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE CountyLine Dairy 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE RFF & Sons Inc 25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.