Commercial building construction general contractors · South Dakota

Van Buskirk Construction

Sioux Falls, SD · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Buskirk Construction runs at 432% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Van Buskirk Construction: 12.5 TCR = 432% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Buskirk Construction safety composite

Van Buskirk Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Van Buskirk Construction: 0.0 → 25.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 25.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2018

Van Buskirk Construction's TCR rose 25.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 25.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 432% of ind

  • DART 15.0 DART
  • RANK #33/35
  • PHOTO Air Conditioning Ass…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Air Conditioning Associates, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Buskirk Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Buskirk Construction averages 12.5 TCR (432% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Van Buskirk Construction TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=25 · BLS 2.9

Where Van Buskirk Construction falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 35 Commercial building constructi employers in South Dakota.

Van Buskirk Construction (20 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Buskirk Construction
Van Buskirk Construction (20 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Van Buskirk Construction has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 25.0 15.0 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · SD · Sioux Falls

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, 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 Air Conditioning Associates, Inc. 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PicFair Holdings 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H.P. Cummings Construction Company 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blair Design & Construction 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1883-Harrisburg, SD 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mueller Lumber Company 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smart Commercial Construction, Co. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michaels Fence 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenland Const., Inc. 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0059 - Aurora, Co 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 602 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Autcoat, LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tmx2073 - Springfield Il 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tmx2579 - Bay Area Fume 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE NICKLES-ZANESVILLE 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Supply 20 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.