Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants · Missouri

Carthage Wire Mill

Carthage, MO · ~173 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carthage Wire Mill runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Carthage Wire Mill: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carthage Wire Mill safety composite

Carthage Wire Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Carthage Wire Mill: 6.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2021

Carthage Wire Mill's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Carthage, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO US Wire : Niles
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Wire : Niles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carthage Wire Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carthage Wire Mill averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Carthage Wire Mill TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=3.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Carthage Wire Mill falls in its industry

163 Wire products, iron or steel, establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Wire products, iron or steel, employers in Missouri.

Carthage Wire Mill (173 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Carthage Wire Mill
Carthage Wire Mill (173 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Carthage Wire Mill has more employees than the Wire products, iron or steel, made in wi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 7.8 6.5 12 0 0
2020 7.7 4.9 11 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 4 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 5 0 0
2016 6.0 5.4 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · MO · Carthage

163 Wire products, iron or steel, made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, 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 US Wire : Niles 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Wire Inc Arkansas 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koswire, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wirerope Works, Inc. SUNBURY PLANT 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daily's Premium Meats St. Joseph, Mo. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye International Inc - Corporate 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stainless Fabrication Inc 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Architectural System Inc- Monett 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-TCR Aquatic Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilson Insulation #721 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #024 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 073 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rockwell Automation- Champaign IL (CGN) 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altek, Inc. 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE TC Transcontinental Thomasville 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tastepoint 173 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, 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.