Retail Sales · South Dakota

Vern Eide Ford

Mitchell, SD · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vern Eide Ford runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade D.

Vern Eide Ford: 6.5 TCR = 191% of Retail Sales BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vern Eide Ford safety composite

Vern Eide Ford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−3.7

2016→2018

Vern Eide Ford injury rate improved

Vern Eide Ford's TCR fell 3.7 from 9.1 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Mitchell, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 191% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Horne Hyundai
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Horne Hyundai (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vern Eide Ford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vern Eide Ford averages 6.5 TCR (191% 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 Ford TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=5.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Vern Eide Ford falls in its industry

2,847 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #17 safest of 18 Retail Sales employers in South Dakota.

Vern Eide Ford (69 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Ford
Vern Eide Ford (69 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vern Eide Ford has more 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
2018 5.5 3.6 3 0 0
2017 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2016 9.1 7.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · SD · Mitchell

2,847 Retail Sales employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Mitchell, 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 Horne Hyundai 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C Harper - GMC Connellsville 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tom Dinsdale Automotive Inc 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2334 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0503 - Target Sioux Falls 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 71241 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Queen of Peace Hospital 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR TKI Mitchell West 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muth Electric, Inc. 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Windmill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Driscoll/Pierson Joint Venture 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Carlisle 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fischer Point 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Concrete Products - Valley, Nebraska 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago II 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE GSDI Specialty Dispersions Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matthews Specialty Vehicles 69 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.