General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers · Montana

Helena

Helena, MT · ~77 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helena runs at 547% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Helena: 12.0 TCR = 547% of General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helena safety composite

Helena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Helena: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 45.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

Helena's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 45.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Helena, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 547% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Lewisberry DC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lewisberry DC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Helena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helena averages 12.0 TCR (547% of the General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Helena TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2020=45.5 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=14.6 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Helena falls in its industry

322 General merchandise, durable g establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 General merchandise, durable g employers in Montana.

Helena (77 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Helena
Helena (77 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Helena has more employees than the General merchandise, durable goods, merc median and a higher 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 6.9 4.6 3 0 0
2023 10.7 6.4 5 0 0
2022 14.6 10.4 7 0 0
2021 6.7 2.2 3 0 0
2020 45.5 15.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · MT · Helena

322 General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 98 employers in Helena, MT · 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 Lewisberry DC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6382-1020-1 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6382-1071-1 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhino Container 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE JKL Associates, Inc 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAC LTT Manufacturing, Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC15 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00630 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dick Anderson Construction 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1872 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1872 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Contractors, Main Office 265 FTE
NAT-TCR CEDI Dallas 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Elizabeth Home 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LaX Fabricating 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CKC Delivery Service 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Standard Textile Brownsville Manufacturing 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Truss Specialists, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Care, LLC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brotherhood, America's Oldest Winery 77 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.