Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis · South Dakota

RPM Innovations, Inc.

Rapid City, SD · ~36 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RPM Innovations, Inc. runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis workplace, earning a grade A.

RPM Innovations, Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RPM Innovations, Inc. safety composite

RPM Innovations, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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 Innovations, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

RPM Innovations, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332117 · Rapid City, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P79
  • PHOTO Greene Group Industr…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greene Group Industries (0.1 TCR gap)

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RPM Innovations, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RPM Innovations, Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis BLS benchmark).

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

RPM Innovations, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where RPM Innovations, Inc. falls in its industry

151 Powder metallurgy products man establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
RPM Innovations, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate RPM Innovations, Inc.
RPM Innovations, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.9

RPM Innovations, Inc. has fewer employees than the Powder metallurgy products manufactured median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332117 · SD · Rapid City

151 Powder metallurgy products manufactured on a job or order basis 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 Greene Group Industries 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metaltech Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GKN Sinter Metals- Tool & Die 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyman Gordon : Princeton 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Golden Dakota Farms LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Rapid City, SD 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Masonry, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE PrairieSons 36 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 Colonial Cartage Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen State Electric, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Remington Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McElroy Contract Packaging. Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DNA Genetics 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glencoe Minnesota 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Valley Cooperative- Sunbury Mill 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sac Osage Electric Cooperative, Inc. 36 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.