Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills · South Dakota

Volga

Volga, SD · ~99 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volga runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills workplace, earning a grade F.

Volga: 8.4 TCR = 254% of Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volga safety composite

Volga scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2016→2023

Volga injury rate improved

Volga's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.3 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=12.6 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=14.3 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Volga, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Emporia KS
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emporia KS (0.3 TCR gap)

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Volga in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volga averages 8.4 TCR (254% of the Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Volga TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=12.6 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=14.3 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Volga falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil, cake, and meal, m establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Volga (99 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Volga
Volga (99 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Volga has more employees than the Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in cru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.2 3.2 4 0 0
2022 7.3 6.1 6 0 0
2021 11.1 10.1 11 0 0
2020 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2019 14.3 9.2 10 4 0
2018 6.1 5.1 6 0 0
2017 12.6 6.3 8 4 0
2016 6.3 5.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · SD · Volga

146 Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Volga, 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 Emporia KS 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shell Rock Soy Processing, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MNSP 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ColoradoMills LLC 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Carlson Construction 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookings Prince Dr Facility 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3253 FAMILY FARE (PATRICK ST, RAPID CITY, SD) 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Dakota 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Volga, SD - Industrial Drive 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corteva Agriscience Brookings Research BRO1 18 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-085-Farmington ( RK-085 ) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Market-Tacoma WA 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FL Int'l Univ PG5 CFA 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo Southwest, Tx #03087 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiesta # 24 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0628 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE TanTara Transportation Corp. 99 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, 2019, 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.