Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified · South Dakota

RPM & Associates, Inc.

Rapid City, SD · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RPM & Associates, Inc. runs at 360% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified workplace, earning a grade F.

RPM & Associates, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 360% of Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RPM & Associates, Inc. safety composite

RPM & Associates, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

RPM & Associates, Inc.: 3.8 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2024

RPM & Associates, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.6 from 3.8 in 2023 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 360% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Empire Truck Sales -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire Truck Sales - Mossy Head (0.0 TCR gap)

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RPM & Associates, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RPM & Associates, Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (360% of the Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified BLS benchmark).

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

RPM & Associates, Inc. TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 2.1

Where RPM & Associates, Inc. falls in its industry

2,560 Manufacturing Industries, Not establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

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 12 Manufacturing Industries, Not employers in South Dakota.

RPM & Associates, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate RPM & Associates, Inc.
RPM & Associates, Inc. (24 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

RPM & Associates, Inc. has fewer employees than the Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 11.4 11.4 3 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · SD · Rapid City

2,560 Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified 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 Empire Truck Sales - Mossy Head 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uglem Ness Company 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Great Southern Savannah 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Irrigation - Yuma 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alban 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Onida 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watertown #052 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls #40 24 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 Benson Enterprises of New York, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tosca - Charlotte 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amita Health Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR South Beloit Office 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dave Christian Const. Co., Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE PS Dr. Kramer 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stroer & Graff, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Candlewood Suites 24 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. 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.