Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing · South Dakota

Spartan Fire - Brandon

Brandon, SD · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spartan Fire - Brandon runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Spartan Fire - Brandon: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spartan Fire - Brandon safety composite

Spartan Fire - Brandon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Spartan Fire - Brandon: 0.9 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2022

Spartan Fire - Brandon's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.9 in 2021 to 2.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Brandon, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO BrandFX, LLC - Fort …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BrandFX, LLC - Fort Worth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spartan Fire - Brandon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spartan Fire - Brandon averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spartan Fire - Brandon TCR series: 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Spartan Fire - Brandon falls in its industry

470 Special purpose highway vehicl establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

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 Special purpose highway vehicl employers in South Dakota.

Spartan Fire - Brandon (200 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spartan Fire - Brandon
Spartan Fire - Brandon (200 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Spartan Fire - Brandon has more employees than the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., f median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 2.3 1.9 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · SD · Brandon

470 Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) bodies manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 18 employers in Brandon, 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 BrandFX, LLC - Fort Worth 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwarze 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MG SWI 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIMCO Inc, dba IWS Sales 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dakota Tube Inc. 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin City Fan & Blower Sunrise 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sturgis Hospital 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Prairie Foods 1400 Plant 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Company 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmen Energy Brandon 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan - Brandon 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan Motors - Brandon 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain State Carbon LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Nursing Center of Colerain 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GE Lighting E&M. (SMRU0876) 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tripack LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ZF-Rogersville 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott Memorial Health 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Killark Electric 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vertellus - Indianapolis 200 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. 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.