Courier Services Except by Air · South Dakota

Watertown (Sdwat)

Watertown, SD · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watertown (Sdwat) runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Watertown (Sdwat): 7.3 TCR = 112% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown (Sdwat) safety composite

Watertown (Sdwat) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 (Sdwat): 3.3 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2018

Watertown (Sdwat)'s TCR rose 9.0 from 3.3 in 2016 to 12.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 7.3 · 112% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #16/35
  • PHOTO NJSAD - SADDLE BROOK
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NJSAD - SADDLE BROOK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watertown (Sdwat) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown (Sdwat) averages 7.3 TCR (112% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Watertown (Sdwat) TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=12.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Watertown (Sdwat) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 35 Courier Services Except by Air employers in South Dakota.

Watertown (Sdwat) (41 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Watertown (Sdwat)
Watertown (Sdwat) (41 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Watertown (Sdwat) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 12.2 9.2 4 0 0
2017 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2016 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SD · Watertown

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 NJSAD - SADDLE BROOK 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAPAL - PALM SPRINGS 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR VTBUL - BURLINGTON 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 1742 GENERAL GEORGE PATTON DR 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dakota Granite 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Truss & Components 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell SD Truss 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Touch Plant 41 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 Palmyra (Mopal) 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C70 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Salude - The Art of Rceovery 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0198 - North Austin, Tx 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galesburg Castings Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Battle Creek (Mibrk) 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkton (Mdekt) 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emporia (Ksemp) 41 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: 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.