Retail Sales · South Dakota

Vern Eide GM

Mitchell, SD · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vern Eide GM runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade D.

Vern Eide GM: 5.0 TCR = 148% of Retail Sales BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vern Eide GM safety composite

Vern Eide GM scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−1.2

2016→2018

Vern Eide GM injury rate improved

Vern Eide GM's TCR fell 1.2 from 5.2 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 148% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO LFW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LFW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vern Eide GM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vern Eide GM averages 5.0 TCR (148% 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 GM TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=4 · BLS 3.4

Where Vern Eide GM falls in its industry

2,847 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #14 safest of 18 Retail Sales employers in South Dakota.

Vern Eide GM (62 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 GM
Vern Eide GM (62 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vern Eide GM 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
2018 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2017 5.9 3.9 3 0 0
2016 5.2 3.5 3 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 LFW 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mills Ford Lincoln 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TLG-North Kentucky 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Chevrolet Cadillac Inc 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE G & R Controls - Sioux Falls 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwestern Mechanical-Rapid City 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Watertown 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4081 - Dakota Panel Board Line 62 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 Plant One 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 11 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RIL/CVS 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3014 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Permian Machinery Movers 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE WVUH Cheat Lake Physicians 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE A-C Equipment Services 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech Services 62 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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