Dry pasta manufacturing · Missouri

A. Zerega's Sons Inc.

Lee'S Summit, MO · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dry pasta manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A. Zerega's Sons Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Dry pasta manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. safety composite

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−8.4

2016→2021

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. injury rate improved

A. Zerega's Sons Inc.'s TCR fell 8.4 from 10.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311824 · Lee'S Summit, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Philadelphia Macaron…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philadelphia Macaroni Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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A. Zerega's Sons Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows A. Zerega's Sons Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Dry pasta manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where A. Zerega's Sons Inc. falls in its industry

170 Dry pasta manufacturing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Dry pasta manufacturing employers in Missouri.

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. (113 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate A. Zerega's Sons Inc.
A. Zerega's Sons Inc. (113 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 3.9

A. Zerega's Sons Inc. has more employees than the Dry pasta manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2020 6.9 3.8 9 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2018 5.1 5.1 7 0 0
2017 2.9 2.1 3 1 0
2016 10.0 2.2 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311824 · MO · Lee'S Summit

170 Dry pasta manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 84 employers in Lee'S Summit, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia Macaroni Company 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Mills Kent 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Texas- Supply Chain Center 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riviana Foods St Louis 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMF Electrical Cont. Inc 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC-Rol 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4264 Liberty Container 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nesher Pharmaceuticals (USA) LLC. Bridgeton 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Luke's East Hospital 1,448 FTE
CITY-NEAR 29-369162655-0 1,301 FTE
CITY-NEAR PremierLife Corporation 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Knox Village 785 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutton Trucking Kent Terminal 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AH4R - Chicago 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ADESA Sarasota 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Shop & West Tenn Structures 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Noble Vineyard Management 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ben E Keith Corporate Office 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilchrist & Soames Plainfield, IN 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversiified Thermal, Inc. 113 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.