Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local · Missouri

Ahrens Contracting

St. Louis, MO · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ahrens Contracting runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Ahrens Contracting: 1.6 TCR = 61% of Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ahrens Contracting safety composite

Ahrens Contracting scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ahrens Contracting: 4.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 4.14× in 2024

Ahrens Contracting's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · St. Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 61% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #9/45
  • PHOTO 4457640 BEACON RECYC…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4457640 BEACON RECYCLING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ahrens Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ahrens Contracting averages 1.6 TCR (61% of the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Ahrens Contracting TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 2.6

Where Ahrens Contracting falls in its industry

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 45 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous so employers in Missouri.

Ahrens Contracting (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ahrens Contracting
Ahrens Contracting (19 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Ahrens Contracting has fewer employees than the Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2024 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MO · St. Louis

2,322 Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous solid waste) hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 686 employers in St. Louis, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 4457640 BEACON RECYCLING 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03900 - IL PEORIA HAULING 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoffman Southwest Corp; 74 DAPP 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S07094 - 1370 S Valley Hwy Office 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms MOC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO Rocky Point 006-0138-RP 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stokes-Mayberry Gin Co., Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE King City Seed, Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monsanto - St. Louis 6,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABI Corporation 2,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Louis University Hospital 2,084 FTE
NAT-TCR Cavalieri Construction Company Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Memphis V, LLC--Primacy 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Tsusho - Lafayette 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jomara Seafood Inc. 1.6 TCR

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: 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.