Blood banking · South Dakota

Vitalant SD Rapid City

Rapid City, SD · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vitalant SD Rapid City runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade F.

Vitalant SD Rapid City: 7.7 TCR = 203% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vitalant SD Rapid City safety composite

Vitalant SD Rapid City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Vitalant SD Rapid City held a steady TCR band

Vitalant SD Rapid City's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.2 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.2 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=20.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Hampton, VA-Biolife …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hampton, VA-Biolife 796 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vitalant SD Rapid City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vitalant SD Rapid City averages 7.7 TCR (203% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

Vitalant SD Rapid City TCR series: 2018=5.2 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=20 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Vitalant SD Rapid City falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #8 safest of 8 Blood banking employers in South Dakota.

Vitalant SD Rapid City (39 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Vitalant SD Rapid City
Vitalant SD Rapid City (39 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vitalant SD Rapid City has fewer 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
2023 4.9 2.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 20.0 20.0 5 0 0
2020 8.5 0.0 3 0 0
2018 5.2 0.0 2 1 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 Hampton, VA-Biolife 796 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tempe 10048 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAGARD-OPI-GARDEN GROVE 471 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Blood Center Kettering 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck & Hofer Construction 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rangel Construction Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Continental Restoration Co., Inc. South Dakota 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeGeest Steel Works Co 39 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 Seasons Retirement Community 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lansing Plant - 06 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Grnvl/Sprtbg SC FXFE-GSP 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Waeco Construction LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steven Izzi Trucking and Rigging, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alabama Steel Terminals 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vitalant TN Memphis Madison 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moorhead 39 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.