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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 20 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall County Healthcare Center | Britton | General medical and surgical | B | 4.5 |
| Avera Milbank Area Hospital | Milbank | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.5 |
| Myrl & Roy's Paving | Sioux Falls | Asphalt paving mixtures made | D | 4.5 |
| Sioux Falls 2 | Sioux Falls | General-line groceries merch | F | 4.5 |
| TTI- Rapid City, SD | Rapid City | General Freight Trucking, Lo | C | 4.5 |
| Puetz Design + Build - Mitchell | Mitchell | Commercial building construc | D | 4.5 |
| 469180-Watertown Po | Watertown | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.5 |
| CCC - Rapid City SD | Rapid City | Addition, alteration and ren | D | 4.4 |
| Vishay Dale Electronics | Yankton | Inductors, electronic compon | D | 4.4 |
| KWB Hotel Partners LLC | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.4 |
| Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Yankton | Yankton | - | F | 4.4 |
| Rapid City Holiday Inn Express | Rapid City | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.4 |
| Puetz Design + Build | Mitchell | Commercial building construc | D | 4.4 |
| Monument-Rapid City | Rapid City | - | D | 4.4 |
| Pierre Clubhouse | Pierre | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.4 |
| Huron Energy, LLC | Huron | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | D | 4.4 |
| Northern Sky Dairy, LLP - NSDL289 | Bruce | Dairy Farm | C | 4.4 |
| Sharpe Enterprises Inc | Pierre | Seawall, wave protection, co | D | 4.4 |
| Lake Preston Farm Supply | Lake Preston | Gasoline stations with conve | D | 4.4 |
| Madison Community Hospital d/b/a Madison Regional Health System | Madison | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.4 |
| 500118200 - South Dakota State Univ. | Brookings | Food Services | D | 4.4 |
| Flying J Country Market | Rapid City | Convenience food stores | D | 4.4 |
| Welding Accessories and Cutting - Watertown | Watertown | Welding equipment manufactur | D | 4.4 |
| Twin City Fan & Blower Sunrise | Brookings | Blower filter units manufact | D | 4.4 |
| Dunes Surgical Hospital | Dakota Dunes | Hospitals, specialty (except | C | 4.3 |
| Avera St. Benedict Health Center | Parkston | Hospitals, specialty (except | C | 4.3 |
| Rapid City Office | Rapid City | 624190 Other Individual and | C | 4.3 |
| Sioux Falls-P | Sioux Falls | Cold storage warehousing | B | 4.3 |
| Monument Health Spearfish Hospital | Spearfish | General medical and surgical | B | 4.3 |
| 000019863 Badlands National Park | Interior | Hospitality and Leisure | D | 4.3 |
| Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital Corporation | Scotland | General medical and surgical | B | 4.3 |
| Runnings of Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Superstores (i.e., food and | D | 4.3 |
| Swy-0005-0005-00581 Fac-00581-Rapid City-Sd | Rapid City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| VRC Metal Systems, Box Elder | Box Elder | Assembly machines manufactur | D | 4.3 |
| H & S Enterprise / Aberdeen | Aberdeen | General Freight Trucking, Lo | C | 4.3 |
| Good Samaritan Society St. Martin Village | Rapid City | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.3 |
| Watertown - Main Store | Watertown | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.3 |
| Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Frozen foods, packaged (exce | D | 4.3 |
| ABERDEEN_1352279 | Aberdeen | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.2 |
| Rapid City SD Yard | Rapid City | Other Building Material Deal | D | 4.2 |
| Colton | Colton | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | D | 4.2 |
| ARS, a Tecta America Company, LLC. | Sioux Falls | Low slope roofing installati | D | 4.2 |
| Sturdevant Companies - 52 Refinish Supply Center | Sioux Falls | Motor Vehicles, parts and su | D | 4.2 |
| Manitou Group Yankton SD | Yankton | Construction machinery manuf | D | 4.2 |
| Watertown #052 | Watertown | Farm building construction | D | 4.2 |
| Poet Biorefining - Groton | Groton | Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, m | D | 4.2 |
| North Star Logistics, LLC Lake Norden | Lake Norden | Low voltage electrical work | D | 4.2 |
| Terex - Watertown | Watertown | Aerial work platforms manufa | D | 4.2 |
| Springfield Assisted Living Center | Springfield | Homes for the elderly with n | B | 4.2 |
| 4080/3806 - Dakota Panel DC | Rapid City | General Warehousing and Stor | B | 4.2 |
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.