Beer merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

Quality Brands of the Black Hills

Rapid City, SD · ~70 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Brands of the Black Hills runs at 563% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Quality Brands of the Black Hills: 12.4 TCR = 563% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Brands of the Black Hills safety composite

Quality Brands of the Black Hills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−3.7

2020→2024

Quality Brands of the Black Hills injury rate improved

Quality Brands of the Black Hills's TCR fell 3.7 from 15.0 in 2020 to 11.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=15.0 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=14.7 · 2023=12.1 · 2024=11.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 563% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO (HFC) - Bluegrass Be…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: (HFC) - Bluegrass Beverage, LLC - Hopkinsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Brands of the Black Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Brands of the Black Hills averages 12.4 TCR (563% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Brands of the Black Hills TCR series: 2020=15 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=14.7 · 2023=12.1 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Quality Brands of the Black Hills falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Quality Brands of the Black Hills (70 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Brands of the Black Hills
Quality Brands of the Black Hills (70 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Quality Brands of the Black Hills has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 11.3 8.1 7 0 0
2023 12.1 9.1 8 0 0
2022 14.7 13.2 10 0 0
2021 8.8 8.8 6 0 0
2020 15.0 13.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · SD · Rapid City

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid City, 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 (HFC) - Bluegrass Beverage, LLC - Hopkinsville 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kristen Distributing Company-Temple 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bills Distributing LTD 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Distributers, Inc. 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Valley Energy - Colman 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lind Exco, Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medgene 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls Truck & Trailer Inc 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR Glen Haven Home, Inc. 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0767 - San Dimas 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Orion Nursing and Rehab Center 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CWS Administracion 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE HIMB 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dalena Farms Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Plains Compost, Inc. 70 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. 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.