Locating underground utility lines prior to digging · South Dakota

Watertown, SD

Watertown, SD · ~57 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watertown, SD runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locating underground utility lines prior to digging workplace, earning a grade F.

Watertown, SD: 8.1 TCR = 312% of Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS 2.6 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown, SD safety composite

Watertown, SD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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, SD: 0.0 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

Watertown, SD's TCR rose 13.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 13.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 312% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Pacific Traffic Cont…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Traffic Control, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watertown, SD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown, SD averages 8.1 TCR (312% of the Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS benchmark).

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

Watertown, SD TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Watertown, SD falls in its industry

208 Locating underground utility l establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Watertown, SD (57 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 Watertown, SD
Watertown, SD (57 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Watertown, SD has fewer employees than the Locating underground utility lines prior median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 13.2 5.3 3 2 0
2023 12.7 6.3 6 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2020 6.5 4.3 3 0 0
2019 9.5 6.4 5 1 0
2018 10.6 8.0 6 2 0
2017 8.1 3.5 7 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · SD · Watertown

208 Locating underground utility lines prior to digging 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 Pacific Traffic Control, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADA Traffic Control, ltd 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safe Zone Services 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam Schwartz Pedestrian Traffic Management Services, Inc. 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Play Systems, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4192-00051155-15 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knecht Lumber & Distribution 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Runnings of Aberdeen 57 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 Service Uniform Englewood Colorado 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Centennial Middle School 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wood & Wood dba SmallCorp 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Billco Manufacturing, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scenic Hills Alternative Care 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Gate 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&L Roofing, LLC 57 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.