Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · South Dakota

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City safety composite

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.0

2020→2021

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City injury rate improved

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Rapid City, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Veritas Steel LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Veritas Steel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

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 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in South Dakota.

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City (49 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City
TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City (49 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City has fewer employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · SD · Rapid City

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 219 employers in Rapid City, 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 Veritas Steel LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Orleans Iron Works, L.L.C. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Steel East Moline, Van Pelt Corp 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vulcraft Nebraska 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103544 - FERMI LBNF 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE JR DISTRIBUTING INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakotaland Feeds Huron 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE 957 Rapid City 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Works 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1604 513 FTE
NAT-TCR Service Steel East Moline, Van Pelt Corp 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kendall Electric - EHOL 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EU Van Houten 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprinkmann Insulation Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bamboo Pipeline Camarillo 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Testing 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbon Yorba Linda 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millard Sprinkler Inc 49 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.