Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing · South Dakota

TrueNorth Steel- Huron

Huron, SD · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TrueNorth Steel- Huron runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

TrueNorth Steel- Huron: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TrueNorth Steel- Huron safety composite

TrueNorth Steel- Huron scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

TrueNorth Steel- Huron: 4.6 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2021

TrueNorth Steel- Huron's TCR rose 4.1 from 4.6 in 2020 to 8.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Huron, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Steel-Fab, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel-Fab, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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TrueNorth Steel- Huron in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TrueNorth Steel- Huron averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TrueNorth Steel- Huron TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2021=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where TrueNorth Steel- Huron falls in its industry

449 Culverts, fabricated metal pla establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 5 Culverts, fabricated metal pla employers in South Dakota.

TrueNorth Steel- Huron (47 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate TrueNorth Steel- Huron
TrueNorth Steel- Huron (47 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

TrueNorth Steel- Huron has fewer employees than the Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 8.7 2.2 4 0 0
2020 4.6 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · SD · Huron

449 Culverts, fabricated metal plate work, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 43 employers in Huron, 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 Steel-Fab, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cupples J&J Dyersburg 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cadillac Fabrication Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egger Steel Company 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE SRAM - Spearfish 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malloy Electric-Dakota Dunes 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota Provisions 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huron Regional Medical Center 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3853 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huron Area Center for Independence 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilson Landscape Associates 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Libbey Shreveport Plant 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Futurex Industries - Woody 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Walnut Creek Alzheimer's Special Care Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Google Warehouse 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firestone 6-179 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Valley Hospital South 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE WIL 47 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: 2021, 2020. 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.