Wood Preserving · South Dakota

Whitewood - 1340

Whitewood, SD · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitewood - 1340 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wood Preserving workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitewood - 1340: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Wood Preserving BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitewood - 1340 safety composite

Whitewood - 1340 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2020→2024

Whitewood - 1340 injury rate improved

Whitewood - 1340's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.3 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO UFP White Bear Lake,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UFP White Bear Lake, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitewood - 1340 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitewood - 1340 averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Wood Preserving BLS benchmark).

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

Whitewood - 1340 TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitewood - 1340 falls in its industry

183 Wood Preserving establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Whitewood - 1340 (28 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Whitewood - 1340
Whitewood - 1340 (28 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Whitewood - 1340 has fewer employees than the Wood Preserving 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
2024 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 7.9 3.9 2 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · SD · Whitewood

183 Wood Preserving 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 UFP White Bear Lake, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McAlisterville 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Janesville, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desoto Treated Materials 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hills Electric Cooperative 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwoods 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timmons Construction Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations - Whitewood 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Lumber Whitewood SD 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Esprit Apartments 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1443 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1339 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10087 Monterey 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peterson Tractor Redding 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dolphins Cove 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summers Hardware 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reunion 28 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. 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.