Structural lumber and timber, treating · South Dakota

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD

Whitewood, SD · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Structural lumber and timber, treating workplace, earning a grade F.

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Structural lumber and timber, treating BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD safety composite

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD: 0.0 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2017

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD's TCR rose 14.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 14.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Whitewood, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Everwood Treatment C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Everwood Treatment Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Structural lumber and timber, treating BLS benchmark).

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

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD falls in its industry

183 Structural lumber and timber, establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD (21 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD
Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD (21 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD has fewer employees than the Structural lumber and timber, treating median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 14.4 9.6 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · SD · Whitewood

183 Structural lumber and timber, treating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Whitewood, 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 Everwood Treatment Co., Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robbins Manufacturing Webster 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bangor 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LF-ME-LIVERMORE FALLS 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE M007 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE M001 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kodiak Pork 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Run 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitewood - 1340 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations - Whitewood 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Scrap Management KC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rai Crew Mia 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0426 - New Braunfels, Tx 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1730 LKQ/Keystone 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4006 Mt. Aloysius College 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Easton, Pa 21 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.