Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing · South Dakota

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing

Volga, SD · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing: 4.0 TCR = 102% of Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing safety composite

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing: 3.5 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.5 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Volga, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 102% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO East Mill Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Mill Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing averages 4.0 TCR (102% of the Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=2 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing falls in its industry

756 Feed supplements, animal (exce establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #10 safest of 14 Feed supplements, animal (exce employers in South Dakota.

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing
Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing has more employees than the Feed supplements, animal (except cat, do median and a higher 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
2024 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · SD · Volga

756 Feed supplements, animal (except cat, dog), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Volga, 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 East Mill Office 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEM Minerals, L.P. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huvepharma Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owen Feed Mill 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Sioux Falls SD 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE KN Construction Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE DOUG O'BRYAN 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Asphalt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Volga 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Volga, SD - Industrial Drive 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corteva Agriscience Brookings Research BRO1 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Long Beach - MP 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Pet 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Evanston 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nutrilite Spaulding Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cana Cabinetry-230 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE NG Elgin Reporting Center & Weld School 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE A & F Growers, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Subaru of North Tampa 51 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.