Starches (except laundry) manufacturing · Missouri

Dakota Blenders

St. Louis, MO · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Blenders runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Starches (except laundry) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dakota Blenders: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Starches (except laundry) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Blenders safety composite

Dakota Blenders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dakota Blenders: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Dakota Blenders's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO Anderson Custom Proc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anderson Custom Processing (0.4 TCR gap)

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Dakota Blenders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Blenders averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Starches (except laundry) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Blenders TCR series: 2017=0 · 2023=13.8 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota Blenders falls in its industry

53 Starches (except laundry) manu establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dakota Blenders (59 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Blenders
Dakota Blenders (59 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Dakota Blenders has fewer employees than the Starches (except laundry) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2023 13.8 6.9 8 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · MO · St. Louis

53 Starches (except laundry) manufacturing 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 Anderson Custom Processing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PureField Ingredients LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Energy Partners, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manildra Milling Corporation 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Dodson Service Center 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Division 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Electrical Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joplin office 59 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 Michie Concrete Products, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverbend Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stock Yards St. Petersburg 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayar - Yarmouth 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Snyder Manufacturing Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE FV Clinics-Univ Villge RX FSOC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Automation Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEA 59 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, 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.