Machine shops · South Dakota

Scherer Inc.

Tea, SD · ~65 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scherer Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Scherer Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scherer Inc. safety composite

Scherer Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.6

2018→2022

Scherer Inc. injury rate improved

Scherer Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 7.6 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Tea, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Newton Falls Ohio
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newton Falls Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scherer Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scherer Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Scherer Inc. TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Scherer Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Machine shops employers in South Dakota.

Scherer Inc. (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Scherer Inc.
Scherer Inc. (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Scherer Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 4.0 0.0 3 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 3 0 0
2020 7.5 3.0 5 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 7.6 3.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · SD · Tea

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 17 employers in Tea, 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 Newton Falls Ohio 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guill Tool and Engineering Co., Inc. - West Warwick, RI 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMG - Gasser & Sons LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trusted Supply Chain Partners, LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shopko Store #49 (Aberdeen, SD) 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watertown SD Skilled Nursing Facility LLC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avantara Redfield 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Integrations 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sorlien Electric, Inc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeGeest Corporation 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 192 TEA 48 FTE
NAT-TCR A. Durer, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitney Oaks Golf Course 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #646 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #859 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE J&I Manufacturing, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crescent Plastics, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lime Rock Springs Co. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Converting Division Texas), LLC 65 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.