Cellular phone tower construction · South Dakota

Rapid City Office

Sioux Falls, SD · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rapid City Office runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Rapid City Office: 3.8 TCR = 134% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rapid City Office safety composite

Rapid City Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.5

2017→2018

Rapid City Office injury rate improved

Rapid City Office's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 134% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rapid City Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rapid City Office averages 3.8 TCR (134% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

Rapid City Office TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Rapid City Office falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Cellular phone tower construct employers in South Dakota.

Rapid City Office (22 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Rapid City Office
Rapid City Office (22 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Rapid City Office has fewer employees than the Cellular phone tower construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 Main Office 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 160 Garden Avenue, Roselle, IL 60172 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-San Jose-2711 N 1st St 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turnaround Communications 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jackrabbit Family Farms, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Engineering Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Excavating, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shop 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Vee Pak - Hodgkins, IL 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bliss 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC- MGA Rydal 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Grande dba The Citadel Retirement Apts 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE # 1 Cochran Volkswagen of South Hills 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical Transport Company of Tucson 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE D1 - Wilmington Bedding/Dinning 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gundlach Champion Inc. Office 22 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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