Farm building construction · South Dakota

Watertown #052

Watertown, SD · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watertown #052 runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm building construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Watertown #052: 4.2 TCR = 145% of Farm building construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown #052 safety composite

Watertown #052 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Watertown #052 held a steady TCR band

Watertown #052's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.3 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/35
  • PHOTO Golden Triangle Cons…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Golden Triangle Construction, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watertown #052 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown #052 averages 4.2 TCR (145% of the Farm building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Watertown #052 TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=4.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Watertown #052 falls in its industry

4,692 Farm building construction establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 35 Farm building construction employers in South Dakota.

Watertown #052 (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Watertown #052
Watertown #052 (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Watertown #052 has fewer employees than the Farm building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · SD · Watertown

4,692 Farm building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Watertown, 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 Golden Triangle Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLANTONIO INC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gorski engineering Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rodan Builders, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alban 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Onida 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Falls #40 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Rule Construction Co., Inc. 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare System 611 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Lakes Healthcare 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terex - Watertown 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1500 352 FTE
NAT-TCR RoadHouse Crossroads, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson (Msjac) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Division 33 - El Centro Fuels 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Applingwood Healthcare Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Mineral Products - Anniston 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AEM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spires Paving Company 24 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.