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 9 of 36| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TLMV, Inc | Sioux Falls | Artificial turf installation | F | 8.7 |
| Regional Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital | Deadwood | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 8.7 |
| State Steel Sioux falls | Sioux Falls | Pipe, metal, merchant wholes | F | 8.7 |
| EFD Madison | Madison | Film, plastics (except packa | F | 8.7 |
| Runnings of Milbank | Milbank | General stores | F | 8.7 |
| TKI Mitchell West | Mitchell | Truck trailer manufacturing | F | 8.6 |
| Monument Health Deadwood Hospital | Deadwood | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 8.6 |
| Revillo Farmers Elevator | Revillo | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 8.6 |
| 0419 - Rapid City, Sd | Rapid City | Retail Stores | F | 8.6 |
| Load King Elk Point, South Dakota | Elk Point | Flatbed trailers, commercial | F | 8.5 |
| Nordstrom's Automotive Inc. | Garretson | Motor vehicle parts, used, m | F | 8.5 |
| Curt 141 | Brandon | - | D | 8.5 |
| MH Sioux Falls | Harrisburg | Forklift repair and maintena | F | 8.5 |
| Goodwill of the Great Plains S. Norton | Sioux Falls | Habilitation job counseling | F | 8.4 |
| Regional Health Distribution Center | Rapid City | General warehousing and stor | D | 8.4 |
| Mitchell - 60-01 | Mitchell | Other Grocery Related Produc | F | 8.4 |
| Pepsi Cola of The Black Hills | Rapid City | Baby foods, canned, merchant | F | 8.4 |
| Sioux Falls (Sdsio) | Sioux Falls | Courier Services Except by A | D | 8.4 |
| Avantara Milbank | Milbank | LTC | D | 8.4 |
| Volga | Volga | Soybean oil, cake, and meal, | F | 8.4 |
| CRM Plant 307 | Bellingham | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | F | 8.4 |
| TrueNorth Steel | Huron | Air cowls, sheet metal (exce | F | 8.4 |
| Henkel Corporation - Brandon, SD | Brandon | Adhesives (except asphalt, d | F | 8.4 |
| Avera Mother Joseph Manor Retirement Community | Aberdeen | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 8.3 |
| Highway Improvement, Inc. | Sioux Falls | Repair, highway, road, stree | F | 8.3 |
| Redfield | Redfield | Commercial and Industrial Ma | F | 8.3 |
| Engineered Films Sioux Falls | Sioux Falls | Plastics film and unlaminate | F | 8.3 |
| Sioux Falls East Sd - 3192 | Sioux Falls | Home Centers | F | 8.3 |
| Sioux Falls CE | Sioux Falls | Sales and Support of Agricul | F | 8.3 |
| Pierre - PI | Pierre | Other Grocery Related Produc | F | 8.3 |
| School Bus Inc. | Sioux Falls | School bus services | D | 8.3 |
| Grand Prairie Foods 1509 Facility | Sioux Falls | Food choppers, grinders, mix | F | 8.3 |
| Dunes Surgical Hospital | North Sioux City | Hospitals, specialty (except | F | 8.2 |
| 1543 | Spearfish | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 8.2 |
| 4081 - Dakota Panel Board Line | Rapid City | All Other Miscellaneous Wood | F | 8.2 |
| Swy-0005-0005-00583 Fac-00583-Spearfish-Sd | Spearfish | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 8.2 |
| Runnings of Aberdeen | Aberdeen | General stores | F | 8.2 |
| Advanced Sunflower, LLC | Huron | Grain cleaning | D | 8.2 |
| Sioux Falls Truck & Trailer Inc | Sioux Falls | Truck trailer merchant whole | F | 8.2 |
| Pro Framing Inc | Hartford | Framing contractors | F | 8.2 |
| Furniture Mart USA Corporate Office and Distribution Center 99 | Sioux Falls | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | F | 8.2 |
| Brookings (Sdbro) | Brookings | Courier Services Except by A | D | 8.2 |
| Sunbird | Huron | Bird feed, prepared, manufac | F | 8.1 |
| Watertown, SD | Watertown | Locating underground utility | F | 8.1 |
| TRAIL-EZE Platte | Platte | Truck and Trailer Manufactur | F | 8.1 |
| Yankton Sd - 3292 | Yankton | Home Centers | F | 8.1 |
| Jackrabbit Family Pork | Mount Vernon | - | F | 8.1 |
| HURON_1367708 | Huron | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.1 |
| Jans Corporation | Sioux Falls | Concrete product (e.g., stru | F | 8.1 |
| Wilmot Care Center | Wilmot | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 8.1 |
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.