Transmission and distribution line construction · Missouri

Black & McDonald - St. Louis

St. Louis, MO · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black & McDonald - St. Louis runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Transmission and distribution line construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Black & McDonald - St. Louis: 1.0 TCR = 37% of Transmission and distribution line construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black & McDonald - St. Louis safety composite

Black & McDonald - St. Louis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Black & McDonald - St. Louis: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Black & McDonald - St. Louis's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · St. Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/28
  • PHOTO Ampjack01
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ampjack01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black & McDonald - St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black & McDonald - St. Louis averages 1.0 TCR (37% of the Transmission and distribution line construction BLS benchmark).

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

Black & McDonald - St. Louis TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Black & McDonald - St. Louis falls in its industry

1,605 Transmission and distribution establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 28 Transmission and distribution employers in Missouri.

Black & McDonald - St. Louis (47 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Black & McDonald - St. Louis
Black & McDonald - St. Louis (47 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Black & McDonald - St. Louis has fewer employees than the Transmission and distribution line const median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MO · St. Louis

1,605 Transmission and distribution line construction 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ampjack01 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAC Corporate 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Communications, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intren, LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Macklind 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & A Electric Power Cooperative 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ozark Electric Cooperative- Mount Vernon Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warrensburg Service Center 47 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 Suburban Water Systems - Main Office (SJH) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Fraser Blackshear 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TK Elevator Dallas 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1805 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE A. W. Farrell & Son, Inc. - Las Vegas 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE AerSale Aerostructures 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne Water Systems 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE #21 Hayesville Roth'S 47 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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