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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 33 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SuBSurfco LLC | North Sioux City | Sewer construction | A | 0.3 |
| Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) | Rapid City | Business management services | A | 0.3 |
| headquarters | 57709 - Rapid City | Corporate office | A | 0.2 |
| Pete Lien Sons,Inc. | Rapid City | Crushed and Broken Limestone | A | 0.2 |
| CBH Head Office | Sturgis | Bookkeepers' offices | A | 0.2 |
| Raven HQ | Sioux Falls | Viscosimeters, industrial pr | A | 0.2 |
| empirical technology, inc. - Corporate Office | Dakota Dunes | Corporate offices | A | 0.2 |
| Poet LLC | Sioux Falls | Engineering consulting servi | A | 0.1 |
| EROS Center | Sioux Falls | Computer systems facilities | A | 0.1 |
| Badlands, LLC | Interior | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.0 |
| SDSIU | Sioux Falls | Industrial Supplies Merchant | C | 0.0 |
| SONIFI Health, Inc. Sioux Falls Office | Sioux Falls | Broadcast equipment (includi | C | 0.0 |
| O'Connor Company - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Air-conditioning equipment ( | C | 0.0 |
| Community Memorial Hospital | Burke | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 0.0 |
| Sioux Falls Campus | Sioux Falls | Trade magazine and periodica | C | 0.0 |
| Redfield Agronomy | Redfield | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | C | 0.0 |
| Mission77 | Mission | Gasoline Stations with Conve | C | 0.0 |
| Van Dyke's Taxidermy | Woonsocket | Glass products (except packa | C | 0.0 |
| Border States - Rapid city | Rapid City | Construction materials, elec | C | 0.0 |
| Wagner Super Foods | Wagner | Grocery stores | C | 0.0 |
| Flexscreen South Dakota Manufacturing | Vermillion | Window screens, metal frame, | C | 0.0 |
| The Liebrary | Sioux Falls | Alcoholic beverage drinking | C | 0.0 |
| First Manufacturing, LLC - Humboldt | Humboldt | Milling machines, metalworki | C | 0.0 |
| County Fair Food Store - Platte | Platte | Grocery stores | C | 0.0 |
| Support Center | Dakota Dunes | Cold storage warehousing | C | 0.0 |
| Edgewood Assisted Living | Sisseton | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 0.0 |
| Cherapa Site | Sioux Falls | Commercial building construc | C | 0.0 |
| Puetz Design + Build - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Construction management, com | C | 0.0 |
| Puetz Design + Build - Pierre | Pierre | Construction management, com | C | 0.0 |
| ABS Global - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Animal semen banks | C | 0.0 |
| Hillyard Co. - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Chemicals (except agricultur | C | 0.0 |
| Sioux Nation Ag - Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Livestock veterinary service | C | 0.0 |
| Agri Partners, Inc.-SD | Clear Lake | Beans, dry, merchant wholesa | C | 0.0 |
| Prairie AquaTech dba Houdek | Brookings | Fish food for feeding fish m | C | 0.0 |
| Acco / Nutting | Watertown | Aircraft engine cradles manu | C | 0.0 |
| Bell Fourche | Belle Fourche | Engineering services | C | 0.0 |
| TK Elevator Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Elevator installation conve | C | 0.0 |
| Tea Dollar Fresh Market - Main Store | Tea | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 0.0 |
| Huff Construction Inc | Aberdeen | Addition, alteration and ren | C | 0.0 |
| Highmark Erectors | Piedmont | Substation and switching sta | C | 0.0 |
| Pierre South Dakota | Pierre | Farm Supply Merchant Wholesa | C | 0.0 |
| WL Plastics - Rapid City | Rapid City | Fittings and unions, rigid p | C | 0.0 |
| L.G. Everist (Main Office) | Sioux Falls | Corporate offices | C | 0.0 |
| Minnwest Bank Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Commercial banking | C | 0.0 |
| Advanced Ag Products | Canton | Feed supplements, animal (ex | C | 0.0 |
| Wausau Supply Company - 86 | Rapid City | Siding (except wood) merchan | C | 0.0 |
| Midland | Midland | Animal feeds, prepared (exce | C | 0.0 |
| 27144 Store 27144 | Custer | All Other General Merchandis | C | 0.0 |
| 27923 Store 27923 | Eagle Butte | All Other General Merchandis | C | 0.0 |
| 31507 Store 31507 | Mclaughlin | All Other General Merchandis | C | 0.0 |
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.