Welding equipment manufacturing · South Dakota

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown

Watertown, SD · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown: 4.4 TCR = 132% of Welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown safety composite

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown: 4.3 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.3 in 2019 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Watertown, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 132% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Micro Products Co
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Micro Products Co (0.1 TCR gap)

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Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown averages 4.4 TCR (132% of the Welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown falls in its industry

129 Welding equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown (50 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown
Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown (50 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown has fewer employees than the Welding equipment manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 6.6 4.4 1 2 0
2023 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 1 1 0
2020 4.8 0.0 1 1 0
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · SD · Watertown

129 Welding equipment 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 Micro Products Co 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Machine Company, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR polymet Corporation 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR System Technologies, Inc. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mustang Seeds, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Rock & Sand Aberdeen 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Technology 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods - NPE Flandreau 50 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 R+L Carriers - SGR 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno NV FXFE-RNO 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Missouri Delta Med C 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roane County Government 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch #8 Springfield 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waupaca Foundry - Plant 1 OS Michigan 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance ISE Lakeland 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quest Industrial 50 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.