Blood banking · South Dakota

United Blood Services-Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Blood Services-Rapid City runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade D.

United Blood Services-Rapid City: 5.2 TCR = 136% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Blood Services-Rapid City safety composite

United Blood Services-Rapid City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.5

2016→2017

United Blood Services-Rapid City injury rate improved

United Blood Services-Rapid City's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.9 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2017=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Rapid City, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Vitalant MS Hattiesb…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vitalant MS Hattiesburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Blood Services-Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Blood Services-Rapid City averages 5.2 TCR (136% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

United Blood Services-Rapid City TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=3.5 · BLS 3.8

Where United Blood Services-Rapid City falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Blood banking employers in South Dakota.

United Blood Services-Rapid City (56 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate United Blood Services-Rapid City
United Blood Services-Rapid City (56 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

United Blood Services-Rapid City has more employees than the Blood banking median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2017 3.5 0.0 1 1 0
2016 6.9 1.7 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · SD · Rapid City

1,713 Blood banking 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 Vitalant MS Hattiesburg 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland, FL-BioLife 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAPORT-OPI-PORTSMOUTH 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network Inc. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steck Wholesale Foods, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builders Choice, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aberdeen Energy, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paylessfoods 56 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 Open Gates FTD/ARTI 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of North Columbia LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale Center (Arsdl) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewood Care Center of Elgin 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maryland Parkway 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADS Buena Vista 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44974 - Carolina Service Center 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1799 56 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: 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.