Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · South Dakota

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy

Rapid City, SD · ~54 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy: 10.0 TCR = 302% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy safety composite

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy held a steady TCR band

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy's TCR held near 0.0 from 10.0 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=10.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 302% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO PROINLOSA ENERGY COR…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PROINLOSA ENERGY CORPORATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy averages 10.0 TCR (302% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=10 · BLS 3.3

Where TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #3 safest of 6 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in South Dakota.

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy (54 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 Ciy
TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy (54 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy has more employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher 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
2019 10.0 6.6 6 0 0
2018 9.7 3.2 5 1 0
2017 10.1 2.0 5 0 0
2016 10.0 6.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · SD · Rapid City

1,491 Fabricated structural metal 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 PROINLOSA ENERGY CORPORATION 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salit Specialty Rebar 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Tower Corp Woodlake Facility 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Steel Inc. 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POET Research Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE H-S Precision, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE VRC Metal Systems, Box Elder 54 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 Extended Family LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Circle Pines 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatherwood RI LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarkson Apartments 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE QualiTau, Inc, 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Pickett 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clepper Manor, CCRC - Sharon 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Easter Seals Hawaii - Green Street 54 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.