Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing · South Dakota

Sioux Bins

Lennox, SD · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux Bins runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sioux Bins: 14.7 TCR = 445% of Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux Bins safety composite

Sioux Bins scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

Sioux Bins injury rate improved

Sioux Bins's TCR fell 0.4 from 13.4 in 2022 to 13.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.4 · 2023=17.7 · 2024=13.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Lennox, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 445% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Broekema Beltway USA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Broekema Beltway USA-Minnesota (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux Bins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux Bins averages 14.7 TCR (445% of the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux Bins TCR series: 2022=13.4 · 2023=17.7 · 2024=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Sioux Bins falls in its industry

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto employers in South Dakota.

Sioux Bins (19 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sioux Bins
Sioux Bins (19 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Sioux Bins has fewer employees than the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, st median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 13.0 13.0 3 0 0
2023 17.7 11.8 3 0 0
2022 13.4 13.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · SD · Lennox

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Lennox, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Broekema Beltway USA-Minnesota 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spudnik Equipment Company - Blackfoot Location 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Tillage, Inc. 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harriston Industries 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall Headquarters 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raeco Builders 1 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City #066 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Company Plant 7 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Comapany Plant 7 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Trailer Sales Plant 7 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Lennox 63 FTE
NAT-TCR COD021 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Moover Wilmington 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Services - Concord 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Emergency Medical Services Hutchinson 14.7 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.