Drywall contractors · South Dakota

Sands Wall Systems, Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Sands Wall Systems, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 426% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. safety composite

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Sands Wall Systems, Inc.: 6.6 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Sands Wall Systems, Inc.'s TCR rose 10.0 from 6.6 in 2021 to 16.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.44× 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 11.9 · 426% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO HWE Wareham Insulation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HWE Wareham Insulation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sands Wall Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sands Wall Systems, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (426% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2021=6.6 · 2022=12.6 · 2024=16.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Sands Wall Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #8 safest of 8 Drywall contractors employers in South Dakota.

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. (81 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Wall Systems, Inc.
Sands Wall Systems, Inc. (81 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Sands Wall Systems, Inc. has more 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
2024 16.6 5.2 16 0 0
2022 12.6 2.8 9 0 0
2021 6.6 1.3 5 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 HWE Wareham Insulation 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 559 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Construction Group, Inc. - Loomis 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls Branch 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFNC - SF - Sioux Falls 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE RDU, LLC dba Boyds Gunstock Industries 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermillion - Main Store 81 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 Avondale,AZ 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 448-West Sacramento 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinross Correctional Facility 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shelter One, Inc 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spartech, LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE John B. Peters Inc. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oddo Development 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Demar Plumbing Corp. 81 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, 2022, 2021. 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.