Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing · Missouri

Billy Goat Industries

Lees Summit, MO · ~124 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Billy Goat Industries runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Billy Goat Industries: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Billy Goat Industries safety composite

Billy Goat Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−9.1

2016→2021

Billy Goat Industries injury rate improved

Billy Goat Industries's TCR fell 9.1 from 12.3 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2018=9.0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Lees Summit, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Amerequip Kiel
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amerequip Kiel (0.2 TCR gap)

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Billy Goat Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Billy Goat Industries averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Billy Goat Industries TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2018=9 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Billy Goat Industries falls in its industry

91 Lawn and garden equipment manu establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Lawn and garden equipment manu employers in Missouri.

Billy Goat Industries (124 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Billy Goat Industries
Billy Goat Industries (124 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Billy Goat Industries has fewer employees than the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 3.2 3.2 4 0 0
2020 4.8 3.2 6 0 0
2019 4.1 3.3 5 0 0
2018 9.0 7.2 10 0 0
2016 12.3 7.2 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · MO · Lees Summit

91 Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 54 employers in Lees 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 Amerequip Kiel 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abilene - Landpride 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-Fab, Inc. (D.C.) 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing and Engineering Facility 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Next Page, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE 044-ROE Salem 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sinclair and Rush Fenton 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Environmental Dynamics International, Inc. 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4590 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 573 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR 573 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lees Summit 341 FTE
NAT-TCR Virgie Save-A-Lot 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ServiceMaster Anytime 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Malaga Building D 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn - Dallas/Arlington 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Viking Plastics Scottsburg 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE MapleView Health and Rehabilitation Center 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE 121 - Walsh/Toebe Joint Venture 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elderwood at Burlington 124 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, 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.