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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.

South Dakota grade distribution 1,778 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

South 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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Trucking Department Aberdeen Agricultural products trucki B 2.8
3S US Foods Sioux Falls Sioux Falls General-line groceries merch D 2.8
Complete Contracting Solutions Rapid City Addition, alteration and ren C 2.8
Huff Construction Inc. (Corporate Office Setting) Aberdeen Addition, alteration and ren C 2.8
Dakotaland Feeds Huron Huron Livestock feeds, supplements B 2.8
RP Constructors, LLC North Sioux City Utility line (i.e., sewer, w C 2.8
Huey Long Co Inc DBA Heartland Pella Rapid City Building materials supply de C 2.8
Sogo Logistics SD LLC Sioux Falls Couriers and Express Deliver A 2.8
Brookings - Main Store Brookings Supermarkets and Other Groce C 2.8
Lemmon Area Medical Association Lemmon Skilled nursing facilities A 2.8
Watertown Ramkota Watertown Hotels (except casino hotels C 2.8
Golden Dakota Farms LLC Elkton Milk production, dairy cattl B 2.7
Billion Buick GMC Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Automobile dealers, new only C 2.7
Kilstrom Center Mitchell Habilitation job counseling B 2.7
Transport Refrigeration of South Dakota, Inc. Sioux Falls Refrigeration equipment and D 2.7
Brookings-22nd, SD - BPC Brookings Blood and Organ Banks B 2.7
Sioux Corporation Beresford Floor sanding, washing, and C 2.7
Golden Corral #778 Rapid City Buffet eating places C 2.7
AH Avera Mckennan Sioux Falls General medical and surgical A 2.7
Milbank CSC Milbank Electric power generation, f F 2.7
Rapid City Store Rapid City Construction and Mining, exc D 2.7
The Park Rapid City Alcoholic beverage drinking C 2.7
Dave's Construction, LLC Sioux Falls Underground cable (e.g., cab C 2.7
The Mitographers, Inc. Sioux Falls Commercial screen printing C 2.7
Iron Horse Excavating, Inc Rapid City Utility line (i.e., sewer, w C 2.7
Quality Park Products - Beresford SD Beresford Envelopes (i.e., mailing, st C 2.7
Dell Rapids Wall Long-distance telephone carr F 2.7
Sodexo at Prairie Lakes Healthcare Es Watertown Building Cleaning Maintenanc B 2.6
Sd01-Dakt-South Dakota Brookings Brookings MANUFACTURER SALES INSTALLAT B 2.6
Smithfield Foods Sioux Falls Pork carcasses, half carcass B 2.6
Rapid City Rapid City Fundraising campaign organiz C 2.6
G & R Controls - Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Temperature control system i C 2.6
Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD Pollock Cheese Manufacturing B 2.6
Avera McKennan Inpatient Rehabilitation Sioux Falls Hospitals, specialty (except B 2.6
Glanbia Nutritionals Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Grain mills (except animal f B 2.6
BAE Systems - Aberdeen, SD Aberdeen Naval artillery manufacturin B 2.6
4316 Sioux Falls SD Container Sioux Falls Corrugated and Solid Fiber B B 2.6
Custom Touch Plant Madison Houses, prefabricated mobile B 2.6
St Michael's Hospital Avera Tyndall General medical and surgical A 2.6
CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #8) Vivian Truck stops B 2.6
039m - Sioux Falls Sd Rntl Sioux Falls Industrial Launderers D 2.6
Preform Solutions Inc. Sioux Falls Bottles, plastics, manufactu B 2.6
Armour SD Skilled Nursing Facility, LLC DBA Avantara Armour Armour Skilled nursing facilities A 2.6
Watertown - 60-04 Watertown Other Grocery Related Produc C 2.6
Cashwa Distributing Aberdeen Packaged Frozen Food Merchan C 2.6
Bowes Construction, Inc Brookings Oil field road construction C 2.5
CRM Plant 304 Aberdeen Ready-mix concrete manufactu B 2.5
Shopko Hometown #759 (Sturgis, SD) Sturgis Department Stores B 2.5
Dakota Tube- Airport Drive location Watertown Pipe fabricating (i.e., bend B 2.5
4192-00051155-23 Rapid City Electrical Apparatus and Equ C 2.5
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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.

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.