Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Global Merchandising Services (GMS)

Kansas City, MO · ~9,548 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Global Merchandising Services (GMS): 3.1 TCR = 140% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) safety composite

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2022→2024

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) injury rate improved

Global Merchandising Services (GMS)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 3.2 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Clover Environmental…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 332 inj
  • SIZE ~9,548 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clover Environmental Solutions LLC - Farmingdale, NJ (0.1 TCR gap)

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Global Merchandising Services (GMS) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Global Merchandising Services (GMS) averages 3.1 TCR (140% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Global Merchandising Services (GMS) falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Missouri.

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) (9,548 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Global Merchandising Services (GMS)
Global Merchandising Services (GMS) (9,548 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Global Merchandising Services (GMS) has more employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.6 1.8 92 0 0
2023 3.5 1.1 122 1 0
2022 3.2 2.4 118 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · MO · Kansas City

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, 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 Clover Environmental Solutions LLC - Farmingdale, NJ 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Technologies Group, LLC - Oglesby 32 Marquette 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant: Sacramento OE 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Richards Company Moorestown 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barnes-Jewish Hospital 9,005 FTE
STATE-SIZE Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Assembly 7,642 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR WHQ Campus 3,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kansas City FM&T KCNSC Main Campus (MO36)(1320) 3,673 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City 3,534 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - WWS1 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaefer Box & Pallet Co 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eveleth Gilbert Sr High 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5752 Dallas Sdc South 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
NAT-SIZE State of Vermont 9,450 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worldport (Kygra) 9,667 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.