Guardrail construction · Missouri

D & S Fencing Co., Inc.

Festus, MO · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Guardrail construction workplace, earning a grade A.

D & S Fencing Co., Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 15% of Guardrail construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. safety composite

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

D & S Fencing Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Festus, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/57
  • PHOTO Reeves West Region
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reeves West Region (0.0 TCR gap)

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D & S Fencing Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D & S Fencing Co., Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (15% of the Guardrail construction BLS benchmark).

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

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where D & S Fencing Co., Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Guardrail construction establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 57 Guardrail construction employers in Missouri.

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. (80 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate D & S Fencing Co., Inc.
D & S Fencing Co., Inc. (80 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

D & S Fencing Co., Inc. has more employees than the Guardrail construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MO · Festus

4,078 Guardrail construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 27 employers in Festus, 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 Reeves West Region 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 586 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Construction Group LLC -Belton, Tx 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rieth-Riley - Grand Rapids 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Site Rite Construction Co 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Land Erector Company, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infinite Energy Construction - KC Office 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE iEng, LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL JEFFERSON 1,380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 69 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR 69 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Treatment, Inc. 191 FTE
NAT-TCR Clover Pwr Sta 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lighting Services Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Farms, Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tarsco Construction Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charleston Gas Operations 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 094 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE All American Service & Supplies 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Care Center 80 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, 2022. 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.