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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
Metro Hardwood Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Plywood merchant wholesalers A 0.9
Fugro USA Land - Rapid City Rapid City Engineering services D 0.9
Thermobond Buildings Elk Point Elk Point Buildings, prefabricated, wo A 0.9
Sioux Falls WRF Sioux Falls Commercial building construc A 0.9
Avera Health Avera St Lukes Hospital Campus Aberdeen General medical and surgical A 0.8
Immutrix Therapeutics Inc. Rapid City Biotechnology research and d D 0.8
A-G-E Corporation Ft. Pierre Pavement, highway, road, str A 0.8
Brooks Construction Services, Inc. Sioux Falls Foundation, building, poured A 0.8
Unit # 1288 Rapid City Retail A 0.8
Garfield Bryant Dairy cattle farming A 0.8
SONIFI Solutions, Inc. Sioux Falls Office Sioux Falls Networks, cable television C 0.8
Rapid City (Technologies) Wall Long-distance telephone carr C 0.8
Location 51001 Sioux Falls Automated data processing se C 0.8
LifeScape Administrative Service Sioux Falls Habilitation job counseling A 0.8
Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Aurora Plant Aurora Denatured alcohol manufactur A 0.8
Vern Eide Motoplex Sioux Falls Retail Sales A 0.8
Vermillion Biotest Plasma Center Vermillion Plasma Collection A 0.8
Central Transport - 572 Sioux Falls General Freight Trucking Lon A 0.7
Chamberlain Chamberlain Farm Supplies Merchant Whole A 0.7
Marshall Veblen Dairy cattle farming A 0.7
SONIFI - Sioux Falls Office Sioux Falls Broadcast equipment (includi A 0.7
116 Rndc-Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Wine and Distilled Alcoholic A 0.7
Mitchell Ford Mitchell Retail Sales A 0.7
Midwest Alarm Company Sioux Falls Security alarm systems sales A 0.7
Dakota Digital Inc Sioux Falls Totalizing fluid meters manu A 0.7
Lacreek Electric Association, Inc. Martin Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
Avera eCare Sioux Falls Medical care management serv A 0.7
LifeScape - Administration Services Sioux Falls Vocational rehabilitation ag A 0.7
Raeco Builders LLC Sioux Falls Footing and foundation concr A 0.6
tessiers inc Mitchell HVAC (heating, ventilation a A 0.6
Distribution and Services: ASI - Rapid City, SD Rapid City Telephone call centers A 0.6
LifeScape Rehab 18th St. Sioux Falls Elementary and secondary sch A 0.6
US - Branch Network : 0772 Sioux Falls Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl A 0.6
empirical foods, inc. - Corporate Office Dakota Dunes Corporate offices C 0.6
Total Card, Inc. Sioux Falls Credit card issuing C 0.6
Cimarron Label - North Sioux Falls Labels, commercial printing A 0.6
Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station Elkton Distribution of electric pow A 0.6
Vervent Inc SD Sioux Falls Credit card issuing C 0.6
Muth Electric, Inc. Mitchell Low voltage electrical work A 0.6
Hegg Companies Sioux Falls Business management consulti C 0.5
VIKOR Sioux Falls Tower, power distribution an A 0.5
Quarq Spearfish Bicycles and parts manufactu A 0.5
AH Avera Central Office Sioux Falls Medical office management se A 0.5
Aberdeen Corporate Office Aberdeen Grain and Field Bean Merchan A 0.5
Link Snacks Inc. Alpena Processed meats manufacturin A 0.4
Regency Hotel Management Sioux Falls Hotel management services (i A 0.4
Design Solutions & Integration, Inc Sioux Falls Electric contracting A 0.4
Tessier's Inc Mitchell Heating, ventilation and air A 0.4
Great Western Bank Sioux Falls Banks, commercial B 0.4
SD,Sioux Falls-Business Center-Office Administrative Services Sioux Falls Administrative management se A 0.3
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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.