Glass fiber insulation installation · South Dakota

Sands Drywall Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~74 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sands Drywall Inc. runs at 329% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Glass fiber insulation installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Sands Drywall Inc.: 9.2 TCR = 329% of Glass fiber insulation installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sands Drywall Inc. safety composite

Sands Drywall Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−10.0

2016→2020

Sands Drywall Inc. injury rate improved

Sands Drywall Inc.'s TCR fell 10.0 from 16.8 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.8 · 2017=10.0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 329% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO AdvantEdge Drywall
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AdvantEdge Drywall (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sands Drywall Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sands Drywall Inc. averages 9.2 TCR (329% of the Glass fiber insulation installation BLS benchmark).

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

Sands Drywall Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.8 · 2017=10 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=6.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Sands Drywall Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Glass fiber insulation install establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #6 safest of 8 Glass fiber insulation install employers in South Dakota.

Sands Drywall Inc. (74 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Sands Drywall Inc.
Sands Drywall Inc. (74 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Sands Drywall Inc. has more employees than the Glass fiber insulation installation 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
2020 6.8 4.1 5 0 0
2019 5.6 4.2 4 0 0
2018 6.9 4.1 5 0 0
2017 10.0 4.3 7 0 0
2016 16.8 6.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · SD · Sioux Falls

1,613 Glass fiber insulation installation 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 AdvantEdge Drywall 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Beek Drywall, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Walls Inc-N.Charleston 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joseph Holt Plastering, Inc 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Runge Enterprises, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls SD Plant 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Aurora Plant 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scherer Inc. 74 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 1077 Torrance, CA 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Genacross Toledo Campus 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Las Vegas 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Potato Pack Plant 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SV Greenport LLC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catalina Offshore Products 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Girl Wash DC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Heights 74 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: 2020, 2019, 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.