Couriers and Express Delivery Services · South Dakota

Sdwat - Watertown

Watertown, SD · ~52 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sdwat - Watertown runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade B.

Sdwat - Watertown: 3.9 TCR = 61% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sdwat - Watertown safety composite

Sdwat - Watertown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Sdwat - Watertown: 5.5 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3.6× in 2024

Sdwat - Watertown's TCR rose 8.7 from 5.5 in 2019 to 14.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Watertown, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.9 · 61% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #4/35
  • PHOTO Crimson Logistics LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crimson Logistics LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sdwat - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sdwat - Watertown averages 3.9 TCR (61% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Sdwat - Watertown TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Sdwat - Watertown falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 35 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in South Dakota.

Sdwat - Watertown (52 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sdwat - Watertown
Sdwat - Watertown (52 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Sdwat - Watertown has fewer employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 14.2 14.2 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SD · Watertown

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 Crimson Logistics LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HOK2 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JST Transportation 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LONDON (KYLON) 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WL Plastics - Rapid City 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE 27106 Independence Ave 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE SXF-ODFL 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAKOTA CENTRAL_1441151 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Kyalh - Upsco Airline Hangar 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Troymill Wood Products 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Harbor 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Raleigh North Hills Hotel 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Msvic - Vicksburg 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tnlou - Knoxville Air Gateway 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mochi - Chillicothe 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMS - Cherrywood Pointe Lexing 52 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, 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.