Commercial building construction · South Dakota

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell

Mitchell, SD · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell: 4.5 TCR = 154% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell safety composite

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell held a steady TCR band

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.5 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.5 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #14/35
  • PHOTO Builders Systems Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Builders Systems Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell averages 4.5 TCR (154% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 2.9

Where Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 35 Commercial building constructi employers in South Dakota.

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell (69 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell
Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell (69 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2023 4.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · SD · Mitchell

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, 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 Builders Systems Incorporated 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hall-Irwin Corp 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WY Capitol Square 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vern Eide Ford 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0503 - Target Sioux Falls 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 71241 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Queen of Peace Hospital 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell West 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Jackson Madison County General Hospital 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Altek Electronics, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyongsan America 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penmar RC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (OH) 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scosta Corp 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emerald Steel Processing LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hampton and Ashley Inn 69 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.