Truss Manufacturing · Michigan

Bear Truss - St. Louis

St. Louis, MI · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bear Truss - St. Louis runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bear Truss - St. Louis: 8.1 TCR = 244% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bear Truss - St. Louis safety composite

Bear Truss - St. Louis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Bear Truss - St. Louis: 6.3 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2021

Bear Truss - St. Louis's TCR rose 4.5 from 6.3 in 2017 to 10.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · St. Louis, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 244% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO 32-256951285-2
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 32-256951285-2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bear Truss - St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bear Truss - St. Louis averages 8.1 TCR (244% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bear Truss - St. Louis TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bear Truss - St. Louis falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Truss Manufacturing employers in Michigan.

Bear Truss - St. Louis (91 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bear Truss - St. Louis
Bear Truss - St. Louis (91 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Bear Truss - St. Louis has more employees than the Truss Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 10.8 7.7 7 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 14.9 14.9 14 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 6 0 0
2017 6.3 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · MI · St. Louis

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 12 employers in St. Louis, MI · 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 32-256951285-2 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seminole Trusses Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelby AL Wood Truss 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Components LLC 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crossroads Blueberry Farm LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries Inc - HQ 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Plaza - ESOC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ann Arbor Service Center 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Michigan Correctional Facility 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Louis Correctional Facility 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schnepp Senior Care & Rehab Center 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plasti-Paint Inc. 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Osceola Regional Medical Center 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1372 - East Lyme Ct Whse 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Napa Grocery Outlet 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Above the Dirt LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE LOK 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE HST 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE FF-Georgia 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRC Recreation LP 91 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. 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.