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South Dakota workplace safety
How 1,778 OSHA-reporting employers across South Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,778
- Employers
- 6.4
- Avg TCR
- 36,517
- Injuries
- 23
- Fatalities
The state picture
South Dakota's 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 · per 100 workers
- 1,778
- employers reporting
- 36,517
- recordable injuries
- 23
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, South Dakota is #46 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #30 of 54, a 16-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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 17 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JR Koop dba Therm Dynamics | Tea | Heaters, space (except porta | D | 5.5 |
| Black Hills Roofing | Rapid City | Low slope roofing installati | D | 5.4 |
| Trinity Electrical Services | North Sioux City | Electrical contractors | D | 5.4 |
| 3853 | Huron | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.4 |
| SiteWorks INC. | Sioux Falls | Distribution line, sewer and | D | 5.4 |
| A & B Welding Supply Co. Inc. | Rapid City | Gases, industrial (i.e., com | D | 5.4 |
| Boyds Hardwood Gunstocks | Mitchell | Applicators, wood, manufactu | D | 5.4 |
| HG386 | Sioux Falls | Homefurnishings stores | D | 5.4 |
| 1483 | Yankton | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.4 |
| Unit #1288 | Rapid City | Retail | D | 5.4 |
| WW Tire Service Inc. - Bryant (Ofc/Main Site & Al | Bryant | Automotive Tire Dealers | D | 5.4 |
| Redfield Energy, LLC | Redfield | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | D | 5.4 |
| Palisade Healthcare Community | Garretson | Nursing homes | C | 5.3 |
| Holiday Inn City Centre | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Poet Biorefining | Mitchell | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | D | 5.3 |
| AGP Aberdeen Soy | Aberdeen | Soybean oil, crude, manufact | D | 5.3 |
| K&M Tire Beresford | Beresford | Motor vehicle tire and tube | F | 5.3 |
| Vermeer Corporation | Freeman | Balers, farm-type (e.g., cot | D | 5.3 |
| 466804-Pierre Po | Pierre | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| DGS Aviation Services : FSD - Sioux Falls | Fsd - Sioux Falls | Support Activities for Air T | C | 5.3 |
| KN Construction Inc | Harrisburg | Residential for-sale builder | D | 5.3 |
| Avantara Watertown | Watertown | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| 1500 | Watertown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| Aberdeen CIH | Aberdeen | Sales and Support of Agricul | D | 5.3 |
| Britton Truss | Britton | Truss Manufacturing | D | 5.3 |
| Fm Acoustical Tile | Sioux Falls | Acoustical Ceiling Subcontra | D | 5.2 |
| Runnings of Pierre | Pierre | General stores | D | 5.2 |
| RPM & Associates / RPM Solutions | Rapid City | Manufacturing Industries, No | F | 5.2 |
| Worthing Agronomy Bulk Plant | Worthing | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | F | 5.2 |
| C & B Operations Mitchell | Mitchell | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 5.2 |
| SD,Sioux Falls-Maverick Air Center-Ambulance Services | Sioux Falls | Ambulance services, air or g | D | 5.2 |
| Dynamic Engineering, Inc | Watertown | Machine shops | D | 5.2 |
| EMC Courtyard SF | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.2 |
| Avantara Ipswich | Ipswich | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 5.2 |
| Avera McKennan Hospital | Sioux Falls | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.2 |
| United Blood Services-Rapid City | Rapid City | Blood banking | D | 5.2 |
| Lewis & Clark Hydraulic Co. | Yankton | Cylinders, fluid power, manu | D | 5.2 |
| Menno | Menno | Fertilizer application for c | C | 5.2 |
| UltiMed Inc. | De Smet | Hypodermic needles and syrin | D | 5.1 |
| 1634 Lowe S of Rapid City Sd | Rapid City | Homecenter | D | 5.1 |
| Sioux Falls Sheraton | Sioux Falls | Hotels and Motels | D | 5.1 |
| Cimarron Label - South | Sioux Falls | Pamphlets printing and bindi | D | 5.1 |
| 4021-500187100 | Vermillion | Food Services | D | 5.1 |
| 5594 | Sioux Falls | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 5.1 |
| Sioux Falls Aerostay | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.1 |
| Action Mechanical | Rapid City | Plumbing and heating contrac | D | 5.1 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | retailing new home furnishin | D | 5.1 |
| Edgewood Greenleaf Sioux Falls LLC | Sioux Falls | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.1 |
| Vern Eide Body Shop | Sioux Falls | Retail Sales | D | 5.1 |
| 4192-00051155-15 | Sioux Falls | Electrical Apparatus and Equ | F | 5.1 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What South Dakota's safety record means for you
South Dakota averages a TCR of 6.4 - about 2.4× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.