Truck trailer manufacturing · South Dakota

TKI Mitchell West

Mitchell, SD · ~343 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TKI Mitchell West runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

TKI Mitchell West: 8.6 TCR = 261% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TKI Mitchell West safety composite

TKI Mitchell West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

TKI Mitchell West: 8.4 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

TKI Mitchell West's TCR rose 0.5 from 8.4 in 2022 to 8.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 261% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO Road Gear Trucking E…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Road Gear Trucking Equipment (0.0 TCR gap)

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TKI Mitchell West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TKI Mitchell West averages 8.6 TCR (261% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TKI Mitchell West TCR series: 2022=8.4 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where TKI Mitchell West falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

TKI Mitchell West (343 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TKI Mitchell West
TKI Mitchell West (343 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

TKI Mitchell West has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.8 6.1 32 0 0
2023 8.6 5.1 30 0 0
2022 8.4 5.1 27 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · SD · Mitchell

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, 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 Road Gear Trucking Equipment 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behnke Enterprises, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bye-Rite Trailer and Fabrication Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC Middlebury 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Regional Medical Center 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Plaza 2 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE SD,ABERDEEN - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 347 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIOUX FALLS (SDSIO) 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Queen of Peace Hospital 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2990 311 FTE
NAT-TCR American Masonry, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis County PUD - Chehalis Operations 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ABDD 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pomps Tire - Green Bay Warehouse 100 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trident Seafoods 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Custom Solutions 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SFL4 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC 343 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. 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.