Drywall contractors · South Dakota

R.L. Drywall and Insulation

Sioux Falls, SD · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R.L. Drywall and Insulation runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

R.L. Drywall and Insulation: 10.5 TCR = 376% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.L. Drywall and Insulation safety composite

R.L. Drywall and Insulation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

R.L. Drywall and Insulation: 0.0 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

R.L. Drywall and Insulation's TCR rose 21.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 21.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 376% of ind

  • DART 21.1 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Alpine Insulation Me…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpine Insulation Menomonee Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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R.L. Drywall and Insulation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R.L. Drywall and Insulation averages 10.5 TCR (376% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

R.L. Drywall and Insulation TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=21.1 · BLS 2.8

Where R.L. Drywall and Insulation falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Drywall contractors employers in South Dakota.

R.L. Drywall and Insulation (30 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R.L. Drywall and Insulation
R.L. Drywall and Insulation (30 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

R.L. Drywall and Insulation has fewer employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 21.1 21.1 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,613 Drywall contractors 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 Alpine Insulation Menomonee Falls 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metier Construction, Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Team Plastering, Inc 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J G Drywall Company Inc 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Warner Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.G. Oil Company #556 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Erectors, Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gray Construction Co 30 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 Tmx2223 - Pleasanton 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0773 - Enterprise, Al 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Valley Adult Resources 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowe 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CarePoint Partners (Plano/Dallas) - 1137 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ursa Logistics - Madison 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renda Southland JV - Indianapolis, Indiana 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aap Enfield (Ctefl) 30 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, 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.