Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing · South Dakota

Pro-Tec Division

Lennox, SD · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pro-Tec Division runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Pro-Tec Division: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pro-Tec Division safety composite

Pro-Tec Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Pro-Tec Division: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 19.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Pro-Tec Division's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Lennox, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Statewide Harvesting…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Statewide Harvesting & Hauling, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pro-Tec Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pro-Tec Division averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pro-Tec Division TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=19.1 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Pro-Tec Division falls in its industry

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

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 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto employers in South Dakota.

Pro-Tec Division (36 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pro-Tec Division
Pro-Tec Division (36 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Pro-Tec Division has fewer employees than the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, st median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 6.2 6.2 4 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2022 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 9.7 9.7 2 0 0
2019 19.1 6.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · SD · Lennox

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Lennox, 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 Statewide Harvesting & Hauling, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Steel Livestock Division 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CNH Industrial - Racine Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Windmill & Supply 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Golden Dakota Farms LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Rapid City, SD 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Masonry, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE PrairieSons 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Company Plant 7 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Comapany Plant 7 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Sales Plant 7 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Lennox 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Jons #02 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hope Day Care 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR D&R Custom Welding and Construction, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pomp's Tire - Oshkosh OEM 057 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maryland Metals Processing Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Sebeka 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cookshack 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moulded Pulp, a division of Cascades Holding, Inc. 36 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.