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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 22 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Rapid City, SD Warehouse | Rapid City | Building materials (e.g., fa | C | 3.9 |
| Workhorse Cabs LLC dba Crenlo Engineered Cabs | Watertown | Cabs for construction machin | C | 3.9 |
| Counterpart Inc | Brookings | Joists, sheet metal (except | C | 3.9 |
| Sdwin - Winner, S.D | Winner | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.9 |
| Branch 2 | Sioux Falls | Forklift trucks (except log) | D | 3.8 |
| Horton, Inc | Britton | Catalytic converters, engine | B | 3.8 |
| CCL Healthcare | Sioux Falls | Print shops, flexographic (e | C | 3.8 |
| Poet Biorefining- Hudson | Hudson | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | C | 3.8 |
| Graco Inc. - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Manufacturing of fluid distr | C | 3.8 |
| Lift Pro Corporate Office | Sioux Falls | Materials handling equipment | D | 3.8 |
| 2807-2435 | Brookings | Homecenter | C | 3.8 |
| Midwestern Mechanical, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Plumbing contractors | D | 3.8 |
| 2259 Far21 | Sioux Falls | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.8 |
| 4021-500118200 | Brookings | Food Services | D | 3.8 |
| Avera Gregory Hospital | Gregory | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 3.8 |
| Onida | Onida | Weed control services for cr | C | 3.8 |
| CCL Label SF1 | Sioux Falls | Print shops, flexographic (e | C | 3.8 |
| Ace Ready Mix- Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | C | 3.8 |
| WI Engineered Cabs - Watertown | Watertown | Agriculture, Construction, M | C | 3.8 |
| Sioux Falls Sw Carrier Annex_1382406 | Sioux Falls | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.8 |
| 105 Sioux Falls West | Sioux Falls | Department Store | C | 3.8 |
| Aviation Manufacturing Group, LLC DBA The Freeman Company | Yankton | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | C | 3.8 |
| G.A. Murdock, Inc. | Madison | Polypropylene resins manufac | C | 3.8 |
| Ross store 1854 | Rapid City | Retail Store | C | 3.8 |
| Avera OSS and Dakota Plains | Aberdeen | Orthopedic surgeons' offices | C | 3.8 |
| Fairfield Inn & Suites Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Hotels | D | 3.8 |
| Rapid City Office | Sioux Falls | Cellular phone tower constru | D | 3.8 |
| Regional Health Custer Hospital | Custer | General medical and surgical | A | 3.8 |
| Avera Flandreau Hospital | Flandreau | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.7 |
| Cedar Shore Arrowwood | Oacoma | Summer resort hotels without | D | 3.7 |
| ADESA Sioux Falls | Tea | Motor vehicle merchant whole | D | 3.7 |
| Twin City Fan Mitchell | Mitchell | Fans, industrial and commerc | C | 3.7 |
| AAH SF HHC & Admin AAH SF HHC | Sioux Falls | Home health care agencies | B | 3.7 |
| RCS Construction, Inc | Rapid City | Commercial building construc | D | 3.7 |
| United Living Community | Brookings | Nursing homes | B | 3.7 |
| Billion Mazda | Sioux Falls | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.7 |
| Wellshire Park Place-Milbank | Milbank | Homes for the elderly with n | B | 3.7 |
| Sioux Falls Transportation | Sioux Falls | Specialized Freight except U | C | 3.7 |
| Bel Brands USA | Brookings | Cheese, natural (except cott | C | 3.7 |
| Limoges Construction | Sioux Falls | Chimney, concrete, construct | D | 3.7 |
| BCI - Sioux Falls Division | Sioux Falls | Boxes, corrugated and solid | C | 3.7 |
| Augustana University | Sioux Falls | Colleges, universities, and | F | 3.7 |
| 51 Rapid City Warehouse | Rapid City | Automotive parts and accesso | C | 3.7 |
| HHM, LLC.-Courtyard by Marriott | Sioux Falls | Management and public relati | D | 3.6 |
| Hegg Hospitality dba Courtyard Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 3.6 |
| Republic National Distributing Company 14 | Sioux Falls | - | D | 3.6 |
| 462100-Central Dakota P&Df | Huron | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.6 |
| Sioux Valley Energy - Colman | Colman | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.6 |
| 71241 | Sioux Falls | Department Stores | C | 3.6 |
| Elite Electric Inc. | Brandon | Electrical, electrical wirin | D | 3.6 |
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.