Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · South Dakota

Ridley Block Operations

Whitewood, SD · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ridley Block Operations runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ridley Block Operations: 3.3 TCR = 83% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ridley Block Operations safety composite

Ridley Block Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Ridley Block Operations: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.4× in 2021

Ridley Block Operations's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Whitewood, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 83% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO Peco Foods Inc.- New…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peco Foods Inc.- Newark Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ridley Block Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ridley Block Operations averages 3.3 TCR (83% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ridley Block Operations TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Ridley Block Operations falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in South Dakota.

Ridley Block Operations (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ridley Block Operations
Ridley Block Operations (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ridley Block Operations has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · SD · Whitewood

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Whitewood, 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 Peco Foods Inc.- Newark Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Candor Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guntersville feed mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amick Farms, LLC SC FeedMill 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Ag Center 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menno 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whetstone Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosebud Electric Cooperative 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitewood - 1340 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations - Whitewood 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Southerland, Oklahoma Plant 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R&J Grocery Enterprises, LLC. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Spencer Turbine Company 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa Children's Museum 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 00394-SR77 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arnold MO Office 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04176 - WM of So MS - Pine Belt 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07245 - Gypsum 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.