Courier Services Except by Air · South Dakota

Rapid City (Sdrap)

Rapid City, SD · ~89 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rapid City (Sdrap) runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Rapid City (Sdrap): 8.8 TCR = 135% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rapid City (Sdrap) safety composite

Rapid City (Sdrap) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−5.0

2016→2018

Rapid City (Sdrap) injury rate improved

Rapid City (Sdrap)'s TCR fell 5.0 from 9.6 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #21/35
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DCN2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rapid City (Sdrap) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rapid City (Sdrap) averages 8.8 TCR (135% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Rapid City (Sdrap) TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Rapid City (Sdrap) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 35 Courier Services Except by Air employers in South Dakota.

Rapid City (Sdrap) (89 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Rapid City (Sdrap)
Rapid City (Sdrap) (89 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Rapid City (Sdrap) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2017 12.1 7.6 7 1 0
2016 9.6 9.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SD · Rapid City

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DCN2 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBU9 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCBMoves 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSEMP - EMPORIA 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Berry LLC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerostar Sioux Falls 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE TranSource Truck & Equipment 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2024 Coborn's Huron -SD 89 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 Heritage Health - Carlinville 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Bethany Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of South Kansas City LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P. - Cypress 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wheeling (Wvwhe) 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur Center (Ildct) 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville (Flwrd) 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quikrete - HOUS 89 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, 2016. 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.