Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · South Dakota

Watertown Plant

Watertown, SD · ~233 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watertown Plant runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Watertown Plant: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown Plant safety composite

Watertown Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Watertown Plant: 4.8 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2023

Watertown Plant's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.8 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO IAC Port Huron
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IAC Port Huron (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watertown Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown Plant averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Watertown Plant TCR series: 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Watertown Plant falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in South Dakota.

Watertown Plant (233 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Watertown Plant
Watertown Plant (233 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Watertown Plant has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 5.9 3.2 13 0 0
2022 8.9 2.3 23 0 0
2021 4.8 1.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · SD · Watertown

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing 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 IAC Port Huron 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2357_4303 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hol-Mac Corporation Plant 3 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck & Trailer Specialties, Inc. - Dutton Location 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Balance Systems Inc 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manitou Group Yankton SD 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodland Cabinetry 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE 500187100 - UNIV. OF SOUTH DAKOTA 234 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 Crossover @ Shoreline 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westrook/Walnut Grove Elem 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GM - Green Mountain 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Lewiston 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stratford Markets LLC, dba ShopRite of Stratford 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Rentals LLC 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis Region 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany Ny (Prospect Rd) Plant 233 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. 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.