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 31 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Supply Co Inc | Mitchell | Agricultural machinery and e | B | 1.2 |
| Huron Elevator/Fertilizer | Huron | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | B | 1.2 |
| RNS-NSC | N. Sioux City | Dog and cat food (e.g., cann | A | 1.2 |
| Malloy Electric-Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Abrasives merchant wholesale | B | 1.2 |
| Dakota Carriers, Inc | Sioux Falls | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.2 |
| Precision Rail Stress Testing, Inc. | Sturgis | Excavating, earthmoving, or | A | 1.2 |
| RSD | N. Sioux City | Dog and cat food (e.g., cann | A | 1.2 |
| Dakotaland Feeds | Huron | Cattle feeds, supplements, c | A | 1.2 |
| AH Avera Downtown Building | Sioux Falls | Medical office management se | A | 1.1 |
| DFNC - SF - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | FLUID MILK MANUFACTURING | A | 1.1 |
| Southwoods | Harrisburg | Construction management, mul | A | 1.1 |
| Sioux Falls Office | Sioux Falls | Cellular phone tower constru | A | 1.1 |
| RENEW Headquarters | Sioux Falls | Electrical generating and tr | B | 1.1 |
| Main Office | Sioux Falls | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | A | 1.1 |
| Regional Cancer Care Institute | Rapid City | Cancer hospitals | A | 1.1 |
| Avera Health Avera Mckennan Campus | Sioux Falls | General medical and surgical | A | 1.1 |
| Clark | Raymond | Dairy cattle farming | A | 1.1 |
| Sullivan Inc | Sioux Falls | Wholesale | A | 1.1 |
| Nelnet-Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Check validation services | F | 1.1 |
| Mitchell SD | Mitchell | Paper and Paperboard | A | 1.0 |
| Cole Papers Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Camera equipment and supplie | A | 1.0 |
| Northeastern Mental Health Center | Aberdeen | Physicians', mental health, | A | 1.0 |
| SRAM - Spearfish | Spearfish | Bicycles and parts manufactu | A | 1.0 |
| Freeman | Freeman | Cream, dried and powdered, m | A | 1.0 |
| Jack Links Alpena Plant | Alpena | Smoked meats made from purch | A | 1.0 |
| Yankton | Yankton | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.0 |
| Jensen Rock & Sand Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Construction sand and gravel | B | 1.0 |
| Jr Distributing Inc | Lake Norden | Animal feeds, prepared (exce | A | 1.0 |
| Holiday Inn Express - SW | Sioux Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.0 |
| The First National Bank in Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Commercial banking | D | 1.0 |
| Advanced Sunflower, LLC Huron | Huron | Grain cleaning | A | 1.0 |
| POET Bioprocessing -Hudson | Hudson | Denatured alcohol manufactur | A | 1.0 |
| Wheatcrest Hills Healthcare Center | Britton | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.0 |
| TrueNorth Steel- Rapid City | Rapid City | Structural steel, fabricated | A | 1.0 |
| Dakota Central_1441151 | Huron | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.0 |
| Pssi / Dakota Provisions | Huron | Building Maintenance Service | A | 1.0 |
| Jensen Rock & Sand | Mobridge | Construction sand and gravel | B | 1.0 |
| 4192-00051155-4 | Aberdeen | Electrical Apparatus and Equ | A | 1.0 |
| Sodexo at Augustana University | Sioux Falls | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.9 |
| SD,Sioux Falls-Stevens Center-Office Administrative Services | Sioux Falls | Administrative management se | A | 0.9 |
| Aberdeen | Aberdeen | Construction machinery and e | A | 0.9 |
| Berry Global Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Bags, plastics film, single | A | 0.9 |
| K & J Trucking, Inc | Sioux Falls | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.9 |
| SD,SIOUX FALLS - Peterson Center - Computer Facilities Management Services | Sioux Falls | Computer Facilities Manageme | D | 0.9 |
| Border States - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Construction materials, elec | A | 0.9 |
| Holiday Hills Estates | Rapid City | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 0.9 |
| BPI Technology, Inc. - Corporate Office | Dakota Dunes | Corporate offices | D | 0.9 |
| County Fair Food Stores - Dell Rapids | Dell Rapids | Grocery stores | A | 0.9 |
| Aberdeen SW10 - SD002 | Aberdeen | Oil, petroleum, merchant who | A | 0.9 |
| Red's All Natural, LLC | North Sioux City | Frozen food entrees (except | A | 0.9 |
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.