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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 24 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetman Construction Company d/b/a Concrete Materials | Sioux Falls | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | C | 3.4 |
| Billion Southtown | Worthing | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.4 |
| MercyOne Dunes Medical Laboratory | Dakota Dunes | Blood analysis laboratories | C | 3.4 |
| Vermillion - Main Store | Vermillion | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| H&W Contracting LLC | Sioux Falls | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | C | 3.3 |
| Sioux Falls Location | Sioux Falls | Printing, digital (e.g., bil | C | 3.3 |
| CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #7) | Brandon | Truck stops | C | 3.3 |
| Dakota Ethanol LLC | Wentworth | Denatured alcohol manufactur | C | 3.3 |
| Careers Unlimited Staffing, LLC | Sioux Falls | Offset printing (except book | C | 3.3 |
| Black Hills Surgical Hospital Business Office | Rapid City | Corporate offices | F | 3.3 |
| 467860-Sioux Falls Sd P&Dc | Sioux Falls | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.3 |
| Shopko Store #22 (Mitchell, SD) | Mitchell | Department Stores | C | 3.3 |
| Koyker Manufacturing | Lennox | Balers, farm-type (e.g., cot | C | 3.3 |
| CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #10) | Hartford | Truck stops | C | 3.3 |
| Novita Nutrition, LLC | Brookings | Produce Dairy Feed and Renew | C | 3.3 |
| Madison Greenhouse LLC | Madison | Plug (i.e., floriculture pro | B | 3.3 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 1554 | Rapid City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| 3035-Kieffer Sanitation | Rapid City | Trash collection services | D | 3.3 |
| Good Samaritan Society - Sioux Falls Village | Sioux Falls | Nursing homes | B | 3.3 |
| Sioux Falls Store | Sioux Falls | Construction and Mining, exc | D | 3.3 |
| ESCO -Watertown | Watertown | Electrical signs manufacturi | C | 3.3 |
| Site Work Specialists | Rapid City | Construction management, wat | C | 3.3 |
| Village Bowl | Mitchell | Bowling alleys | C | 3.3 |
| BHP - RC Service Center (SD012) | Rapid City | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.3 |
| Runnings of Mitchell | Mitchell | General stores | C | 3.3 |
| Sioux Nation Holdings, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Agricultural chemicals merch | D | 3.3 |
| Lien Transportation Company | Aberdeen | Excavating, earthmoving, or | C | 3.3 |
| Ridley Block Operations | Whitewood | Animal feed mills (except do | C | 3.3 |
| Sioux Falls Pdc_1441140 | Sioux Falls | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.2 |
| Panama Transfer Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Transfer (trucking) services | B | 3.2 |
| Sterling Technology SD | Brookings | Condensed, evaporated or pow | C | 3.2 |
| Aberdeen Building | Aberdeen | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.2 |
| Rapid City Reg Health | Rapid City | - | C | 3.2 |
| Persona Watertown Main | Watertown | Electrical signs manufacturi | C | 3.2 |
| Brookings | Brookings | - | C | 3.2 |
| Sodexo at Sdmines Sd Resident Dining | Rapid City | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.2 |
| Black Hills Urgent Care-Haines | Rapid City | Urgent medical care centers | C | 3.2 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 213 Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Grocery stores | C | 3.2 |
| Showplace Wood Products - Beresford | Beresford | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | C | 3.1 |
| Alliance Construction LLC | Sioux Falls | Excavation contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Indian Motorcycle Sturgis | Sturgis | Retail Sales | C | 3.1 |
| Dakota Tube Inc. - Pheasant Ridge location | Watertown | Bends, pipe, made from purch | C | 3.1 |
| EMR Residence Inn | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| Tech Ord | Clear Lake | Explosives manufacturing | C | 3.1 |
| Bath Innovation Center | Aberdeen | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | D | 3.1 |
| Telecommunications | Wall | Long-distance telephone carr | F | 3.1 |
| Jensen Masonry, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Chimney, concrete, construct | C | 3.1 |
| EMF Fairfield Inn and Suites | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| Billion Kia | Sioux Falls | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.1 |
| Tekakwitha Living Center | Sisseton | Nursing homes | A | 3.1 |
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.