TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
South Dakota workplace safety
How 1,778 OSHA-reporting employers across South Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,610 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,778
- Employers
- 6.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 36,517
- Injuries (all)
- 23
- Fatalities (all)
South Dakota vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
1,778 43rd of 54 higher than 11 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
South Dakota's 1,610 rated reporting employers average 6.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.4 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 6.4
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 1,610
- rated employers
- 1,778
- all reporting employers
- 36,517
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,778 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 10% B · 10% C · 24% D · 23% F · 32%
32% of South Dakota's reporting establishments earn an F and 10% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where South Dakota ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRSouth Dakota's average TCR of 6.4 is lower than 15% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, South Dakota is #46 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,610-employer subset), it's #29 of 54, a 17-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How South Dakota Workplaces Compare
South Dakota hosts 1,778 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this South Dakota cohort, workers have logged 36,517 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,610 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 23 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in South Dakota, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in South Dakota, by injury rate
Page 16 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wm 3237 | Sioux Falls | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.8 |
| West-Con (Twin Brooks) | Twin Brooks | Farm product warehousing and | C | 5.8 |
| Sterling Technology | Brookings | Milk processing (e.g., bottl | D | 5.7 |
| Persona Madison | Madison | Electrical signs manufacturi | D | 5.7 |
| Midstates Printing | Aberdeen | Offset printing (except book | D | 5.7 |
| Black Hills Electric Cooperative | Custer | Distribution of electric pow | F | 5.7 |
| South Dakota #47 | Parkston | Tuck pointing contractors | F | 5.7 |
| Sioux Falls Branch | Sioux Falls | Glazing contractors | F | 5.7 |
| Thermo Bond Buildings, LLC | Elk Point | Buildings, prefabricated, wo | D | 5.7 |
| 3237 | Sioux Falls | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.7 |
| Compassionate Care Hospice of Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Hospice care services, in ho | C | 5.7 |
| SD,CLEAR LAKE - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | Clear Lake | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.7 |
| 9282-520327 | Sioux Falls | Frozen Food and Freezer Meal | D | 5.7 |
| SD,Vermillion-Care Center-Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) | Vermillion | Nursing homes | C | 5.7 |
| Dakotaland Transportation Inc. | Sioux Falls | Motor freight carrier, gener | D | 5.7 |
| 6458-ZSFL | Sioux Falls | Local Messengers and Local D | D | 5.7 |
| Baker Timber Products Inc. | Rapid City | Sawmills | D | 5.7 |
| Rinker - Rapcp | Rapid City | Concrete Pipe Manufacturing | D | 5.7 |
| Aberdeen, SD | Aberdeen | General freight trucking, lo | D | 5.7 |
| Avantara Groton | Groton | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.7 |
| Dakotaland Manufacturing | Sioux Falls | Mauls, metal, manufacturing | D | 5.7 |
| 467146-Rapid City Po | Rapid City | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.6 |
| Maintenance Department | Aberdeen | Millwrights | F | 5.6 |
| Fimco | North Sioux City | Farm tractors and attachment | D | 5.6 |
| Rapid City Branch Office | Rapid City | Distribution of electric pow | F | 5.6 |
| LifeScape Adult Services Western | Sioux Falls | Rehabilitation job counselin | D | 5.6 |
| TKI Mitchell | Mitchell | Manufacturing, Trucks_Traile | D | 5.6 |
| Good Samaritan Society - Canton | Canton | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.6 |
| Coca - Cola Bottling Company High Country - Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Other Grocery Related Produc | F | 5.6 |
| Sesdac | Vermillion | Group homes for the disabled | D | 5.6 |
| Wm 1483 | Yankton | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.6 |
| Midwestern Mechanical - Rapid | Rapid City | Mechanical contractors | D | 5.6 |
| Medspeed Sioux Fall | Sioux Falls | Courier services | C | 5.6 |
| Black Hills | Rapid City | Other Grocery&Related Produc | F | 5.5 |
| Elkton | Elkton | Fans, industrial and commerc | D | 5.5 |
| US AutoForce Sioux Falls Warehouse/Lubes Plant | Sioux Falls | - | F | 5.5 |
| SFL | Sioux Falls | General freight trucking, lo | D | 5.5 |
| Avera State Street Medical Square | Aberdeen | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 5.5 |
| WEL-Life at Elk Point | Elk Point | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.5 |
| Avnatara Clark City | Clark | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.5 |
| Runnings of Watertown | Watertown | General stores | D | 5.5 |
| Avantara Pierre | Pierre | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.5 |
| Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Warner Dairy | Warner | Dairy cattle farming | D | 5.5 |
| Sun Dial Manor, Inc | Bristol | Nursing homes | C | 5.5 |
| 2025 Coborn's Mitchell | Mitchell | Retail Grocery | D | 5.5 |
| Riverview IL Operations, LLC | Flandreau | Nursing homes | C | 5.5 |
| Watertown SD Skilled Nursing Facility LLC | Watertown | Nursing homes | C | 5.5 |
| Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 | Sioux Falls, | Floor trusses, wood, manufac | D | 5.5 |
| Yankton - Main Store | Yankton | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.5 |
| JR Koop dba Therm Dynamics | Tea | Heaters, space (except porta | D | 5.5 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for South Dakota: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,778 here).
Look up a South Dakota employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.