Retail Sales · South Dakota

Vern Eide Body Shop

Sioux Falls, SD · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vern Eide Body Shop runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade D.

Vern Eide Body Shop: 5.1 TCR = 150% of Retail Sales BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vern Eide Body Shop safety composite

Vern Eide Body Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vern Eide Body Shop: 3.9 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2020

Vern Eide Body Shop's TCR rose 2.4 from 3.9 in 2018 to 6.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Wendle Motors Incorp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wendle Motors Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vern Eide Body Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vern Eide Body Shop averages 5.1 TCR (150% of the Retail Sales BLS benchmark).

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

Vern Eide Body Shop TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=6.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Vern Eide Body Shop falls in its industry

2,847 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 Retail Sales employers in South Dakota.

Vern Eide Body Shop (34 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vern Eide Body Shop
Vern Eide Body Shop (34 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vern Eide Body Shop has fewer employees than the Retail Sales median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 6.3 3.1 2 0 0
2019 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · SD · Sioux Falls

2,847 Retail Sales 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 Wendle Motors Incorporated 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JEFF SCHMITT CHEVROLET, LTD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Classic Chevrolet Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rent-a-Car 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Dairy, LLC - LDL230 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Service Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAC Construction Co., Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Sioux City 34 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 Chattanooga, TN 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweeney Lumber 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Gadsden Office 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BW StCharles 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iowa Home Care Ottumwa Office 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2636-NEVADA.RENO 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE northwoods ford 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillyard Lancaster 34 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.