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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 29 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Only Transport, LLC | Sioux Falls | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.9 |
| Corner Pantry #19 | Brookings | Convenience food stores | B | 1.9 |
| Pierre Store | Pierre | Construction and Mining, exc | C | 1.9 |
| Rapid Fire Protection INC | Rapid City | Fire sprinkler system instal | B | 1.9 |
| Krier & Blain Inc. | Sioux Falls | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.9 |
| Sioux Falls Service Center | Sioux Falls | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.9 |
| The Lanes | Brookings | Bowling alleys | B | 1.8 |
| Complete Concrete, Inc. | Rapid City | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.8 |
| Shopko Store #49 (Aberdeen, SD) | Aberdeen | Department Stores | B | 1.8 |
| HHM, LLC DBA HGI-South | Sioux Falls | Management and public relati | B | 1.8 |
| Simon - Rapid City Construction | Rapid City | Pavement, highway, road, str | B | 1.8 |
| Pipeline Plastics, Belle Fourche | Belle Fourche | Plastic Pipe | B | 1.8 |
| Hydro Yankton | Yankton | Aluminum extrusion ingot (i. | B | 1.8 |
| Brink Constructors, Inc. | Rapid City | Transmission and distributio | B | 1.8 |
| Wolsey Terminal/Fertililzer | Wolsey | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | C | 1.8 |
| LifeScape Administration Services | Sioux Falls | Vocational rehabilitation ag | A | 1.8 |
| American Bus Corporation | Canton | School bus services | A | 1.8 |
| Sdbro - Brookings | Brookings | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 1.8 |
| Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc. | Yankton | Crushing, pulverizing, and s | B | 1.8 |
| Applied Engineering, Inc. | Yankton | Precision turned product man | B | 1.8 |
| Millborn Seeds | Brookings | Chemicals, agricultural, mer | B | 1.8 |
| Yankton Facility | Yankton | Filters (e.g., air, engine o | A | 1.7 |
| Unifi Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City | Rapid City | Support Activities for Air T | A | 1.7 |
| 605 Companies Inc | Sioux Falls | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.7 |
| Sioux Falls Packaged Gas Store | Sioux Falls | Welding gases merchant whole | B | 1.7 |
| Alltech South Dakota | Brookings | Animal feeds, prepared (exce | A | 1.7 |
| Avera Plaza 3 | Sioux Falls | Physicians' (except mental h | A | 1.7 |
| Weisser Distributing Inc | Sioux Falls | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.7 |
| Avera Westkota Memorial Hospital | Wessington Springs | General medical and surgical | A | 1.7 |
| 500187100 - Univ. of South Dakota | Vermillion | Food Services | B | 1.7 |
| Gates Corporation | Brandon | Hoses, reinforced, rubber or | B | 1.7 |
| Border States Electric - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Construction materials, elec | B | 1.7 |
| Prince Manufacturing Corporation-Yankton | Yankton | Cylinders, fluid power, manu | B | 1.7 |
| 3031-Novak Sanitary Service | Sioux Falls | Trash collection services | B | 1.7 |
| Rosebud Farmers Union | Gregory | Bulk gasoline stations | B | 1.7 |
| AAH HME Living Well Center AAH | Sioux Falls | Medical equipment and suppli | A | 1.7 |
| Michael Foods - NPE Flandreau | Flandreau | Eggs, processed, manufacturi | A | 1.7 |
| Music Service Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Automatic merchandising mach | A | 1.7 |
| 4765-FSDPW9667 | Sioux Falls | Other Airport Operations | A | 1.7 |
| US01 Alpena Links Snacks Inc. | Alpena | Cured meats (e.g., brined, d | B | 1.6 |
| Lloyd Companies, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Building, residential, renta | C | 1.6 |
| Sioux Falls, SD HVAC | Sioux Falls | - | B | 1.6 |
| Lloyd Property Management Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Property Management, Real Es | C | 1.6 |
| Sioux Falls SD Plant | Sioux Falls | Commercial Bakeries | A | 1.6 |
| Littelfuse | Rapid City | Controls and control accesso | A | 1.6 |
| Spartan Fire - Brandon | Brandon | Special purpose highway vehi | A | 1.6 |
| Remington Arms Co. LLC/ DBA Dakota Arms | Sturgis | Firearms, small, manufacturi | A | 1.6 |
| RPM Innovations, Inc. | Rapid City | Powder metallurgy products m | A | 1.6 |
| 0503 - Target Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Department Stores | A | 1.6 |
| Center for New Americans | Sioux Falls | Refugee settlement services | A | 1.6 |
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.