State profile · OSHA ITA
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 28 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AH Avera Sacred Heart | Yankton | General medical and surgical | A | 2.2 |
| Spartan - Brandon | Brandon | Fire Truck Manufacturing | B | 2.2 |
| Dakota Storage Buildings, LLC | Milbank | Buildings, prefabricated, wo | B | 2.2 |
| PBM Graphics - SD | Howard | ALL printing operations incl | B | 2.2 |
| Avera Miller Hand County Hospital | Miller | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 2.2 |
| L&M Radiator INC | Yankton | Radiators and cores manufact | A | 2.2 |
| M.G. Oil Company | Rapid City | Bulk gasoline stations | C | 2.2 |
| Sodexo at Usdsd Resident Dining | Vermillion | Food Service Contractors | B | 2.2 |
| ProSmiles Dental Studio | Rapid City | Manufacture of Dental Restor | B | 2.2 |
| Applied Technology | Sioux Falls | Variable control instruments | B | 2.1 |
| 772 - Sioux Falls, Sd | Sioux Falls | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | C | 2.1 |
| 43291af - Tea | Tea | Confectionery Merchant Whole | C | 2.1 |
| 1347 - Sioux Falls East | Sioux Falls | - | B | 2.1 |
| Timberline Construction Inc. DBA FB Timberline | Rapid City | Construction management, pow | B | 2.1 |
| rc service center | 57709 - Rapid City | Utilities- Electric Power Di | D | 2.1 |
| 3265 Family Fare (Mtn View,Rapid City,Sd) | Rapid City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.1 |
| Hydro - Yankton | Yankton | Aluminum bar made in integra | B | 2.1 |
| HHM. LLC DBA HGI- Rapid City | Rapid City | Management and public relati | B | 2.1 |
| Norcraft - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Cabinet Manufacturing | B | 2.1 |
| Belle South | Belle Fourche | Convenience food stores | B | 2.1 |
| AH Avera St. Lukes | Aberdeen | General medical and surgical | A | 2.1 |
| Shopko Hometown #757 (Belle Fourche, SD) | Belle Fourche | Department Stores | B | 2.1 |
| Corsica Seed Storage/Oil Warehouse | Corsica | Fuel Dealers | B | 2.1 |
| RENEW Energy Maintenance SF Shop | Sioux Falls | Commercial and industrial ma | C | 2.1 |
| Hillyard Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Janitorial chemicals merchan | C | 2.1 |
| Red Horse Seed Production, Inc. | Madison | Planting crops | A | 2.0 |
| Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Excavating machinery and equ | C | 2.0 |
| Sioux Falls PFC | Sioux Falls | Pharmacies and Drug Stores | B | 2.0 |
| Quinn Construction, Inc. | Rapid City | Road construction | B | 2.0 |
| Shopko Hometown #751 (Sisseton, SD) | Sisseton | Department Stores | B | 2.0 |
| Lidel Construction | Sioux Falls | Excavation contractors | B | 2.0 |
| Holiday Inn Express - Empire | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.0 |
| Watertown Store | Watertown | Construction and Mining, exc | C | 2.0 |
| OLM Food Systems Sioux Falls - 4040 | Sioux Falls | - | B | 2.0 |
| Sparton Onyx LLC | Watertown | Printed circuit assemblies m | B | 2.0 |
| Malloy Electric-Dakota Dunes | Dakota Dunes | Abrasives merchant wholesale | C | 2.0 |
| Main Office | Rapid City | Commercial building construc | B | 2.0 |
| Avera Health Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Campus | Yankton | General medical and surgical | A | 2.0 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Rapid City, SD | Rapid City | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | D | 2.0 |
| Poet Biorefining Mitchell LLC | Mitchell | Denatured alcohol manufactur | B | 2.0 |
| H-S Precision, Inc. | Rapid City | Firearms, small, manufacturi | B | 2.0 |
| Sioux Steel Company | Sioux Falls | Balers, farm-type (e.g., cot | B | 2.0 |
| Hart Ranch Development Company | Rapid City | Country clubs | B | 2.0 |
| Engbarth Directional Drilling | Canistota | Fiber optic cable transmissi | B | 2.0 |
| Brookings Western Ave Facility | Brookings | Windows and window frames, p | B | 2.0 |
| Sioux River Ethanol LLC | Hudson | Denatured alcohol manufactur | B | 1.9 |
| The Freeman Company | Yankton | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | B | 1.9 |
| TKO | Aberdeen | Hotel management services (e | B | 1.9 |
| 957 Rapid City | Rapid City | Department Store | B | 1.9 |
| Select Builders, Inc. | Harrisburg | Housing, multifamily, constr | A | 1.9 |
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.