Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Missouri

Insteel Wire Products MOW

Saint Joseph, MO · ~78 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products MOW runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Insteel Wire Products MOW: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products MOW safety composite

Insteel Wire Products MOW scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Insteel Wire Products MOW: 1.3 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Insteel Wire Products MOW's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Saint Joseph, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Insteel Wire AZW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Insteel Wire AZW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products MOW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products MOW averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel Wire Products MOW TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products MOW falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #1 safest of 7 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Missouri.

Insteel Wire Products MOW (78 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products MOW
Insteel Wire Products MOW (78 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products MOW has more employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower 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
2022 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · MO · Saint Joseph

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 76 employers in Saint Joseph, 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 Insteel Wire AZW 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solon Specialty Wire 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elgiloy Specialty Metals - Sycamore 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master-Halco, Inc. - Dallas MFG 031 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCI 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAZAN PAINTING CO. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duggan Contracting Corporation 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Medical Center- St. Joseph 4,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Life Care Medical Center 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR Triumph Foods, LLC 2,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 560 371 FTE
NAT-TCR Sari Sari Oriental Market 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tech Data Chandler 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L'Oreal - Florence Manufacturing 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Summer Village Camellia Place 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2967-NJ101 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vern Lewis Welding Supply Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1980 FAMILY FARE, Paw Paw PREVO'S #38-3345860 WAS 1984 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1572 Family Fare -Rockford, MI PREVO'S #38-3345860 78 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: 2022, 2021, 2016. 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.