TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
South Dakota workplace safety
How 1,778 OSHA-reporting employers across South Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,610 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,778
- Employers
- 6.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 36,517
- Injuries (all)
- 23
- Fatalities (all)
South Dakota vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
1,778 43rd of 54 higher than 11 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
South Dakota's 1,610 rated 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 · rated subset
- 1,610
- rated employers
- 1,778
- all reporting employers
- 36,517
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,778 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 10% B · 10% C · 24% D · 23% F · 32%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, South Dakota is #46 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,610-employer subset), it's #29 of 54, a 17-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,610 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 30 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center for New Americans | Sioux Falls | Refugee settlement services | A | 1.6 |
| Dakota Fluid Power, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Hydraulic hose fittings, flu | A | 1.6 |
| WTN | Watertown | Manufacturing | A | 1.6 |
| Avera Health Avera Mckennan Hospital | Sioux Falls | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 1.6 |
| C & B Operations Corsica | Corsica | Agricultural machinery and e | B | 1.6 |
| Tower Systems Inc. | Watertown | Communication tower construc | B | 1.5 |
| Lake Preston Soil Center | Lake Preston | Fertilizer and fertilizer ma | B | 1.5 |
| SD,SIOUX FALLS - Business Center - Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices | Sioux Falls | Corporate, Subsidiary, and R | F | 1.5 |
| Dakota Automation | Watertown | Woodworking machines (except | A | 1.5 |
| Wurth Electronics Midcom Inc. | Watertown | Transformers, electronic com | A | 1.5 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 192 Tea | Tea | Grocery stores | A | 1.5 |
| RENEW Energy SDFS | Sioux Falls | Electrical generating and tr | B | 1.5 |
| Quality Quick Print | Aberdeen | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.5 |
| Polaris Inc. Spearfish | Spearfish | Motorcycles and parts manufa | A | 1.5 |
| Billion Kia of Rapid City | Rapid City | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.5 |
| Panther Graphics LLC | Sioux Falls | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.5 |
| Ridley Block Operations - Whitewood | Whitewood | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.4 |
| Huron Store | Huron | Construction and Mining, exc | B | 1.4 |
| Interbake foods NSC | North Sioux City | Bakery products, dry (e.g., | A | 1.4 |
| Washington | Bryant | Dairy cattle farming | A | 1.4 |
| Vermillion Distribution Center | Vermillion | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.4 |
| Big Stone Plant | Big Stone City | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.4 |
| Mitchell SD Truss | Mitchell | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | A | 1.4 |
| 00394-SR62 | Sioux Falls | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.4 |
| StarMark Cabinetry | Sioux Falls | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | A | 1.4 |
| Pssi / Demkota Ranch Beef | Aberdeen | Building Maintenance Service | A | 1.4 |
| Avera Dells Area Hospital | Dell Rapids | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 1.4 |
| RENEW Energy SDRS | Sioux Falls | Electrical generating and tr | B | 1.4 |
| Sioux Falls SD - Algonquin | Sioux Falls | Folding paper and paperboard | A | 1.4 |
| Terex - Canton | Canton | Concrete finishing machinery | A | 1.4 |
| Sturdevant Companies - Corporate | Sioux Falls | Motor Vehicles, parts and su | A | 1.4 |
| SD,Sioux Falls-Pentagon-Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities | Sioux Falls | Performing arts center opera | A | 1.4 |
| Mills Construction Inc | Brookings | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.4 |
| Avera Health Avera Queen of Peace Campus | Mitchell | General medical and surgical | A | 1.3 |
| Filtration : Yankton | Yankton | Other motor vehicle parts ma | A | 1.3 |
| Avera Plaza 1 | Sioux Falls | Physicians' (except mental h | A | 1.3 |
| Billion Toyota Scion | Sioux Falls | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.3 |
| SD,Clear Lake-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals | Clear Lake | General medical and surgical | A | 1.3 |
| North American Truck & Trailer | Sioux Falls | Truck trailer merchant whole | B | 1.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 178 Harrisburg | Harrisburg | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| FPC Yankton | Yankton | Correctional institutions | A | 1.3 |
| Spartronics Watertown LLC | Watertown | Printed circuit assemblies m | A | 1.3 |
| DGS Aviation Services : ABR - Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Support Activities for Air T | A | 1.3 |
| Salem Mennonite Home | Freeman | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.3 |
| Wooden Mallet Inc | Aberdeen | Furniture, office-type, padd | A | 1.2 |
| Swy-0005-0005-01554 Fac-01554-Rapid City-Sd | Rapid City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.2 |
| Harlow's School Bus Service - Sturgis | Sturgis | School bus services | A | 1.2 |
| RNDC Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | - | B | 1.2 |
| Bell Incorporated | Sioux Falls | Cartons, folding (except mil | A | 1.2 |
| Forum Communications Printing | Sioux Falls | Periodicals commercial print | A | 1.2 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for South Dakota: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,778 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.