Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Inventory Sales Company

Name: Inventory Sales Company Workplace Safety Data
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St. Louis, MO · ~183 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Inventory Sales Company runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Inventory Sales Company: 2.5 TCR = 111% of Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Inventory Sales Company safety composite

Inventory Sales Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−1.8

2020→2022

Inventory Sales Company injury rate improved

Inventory Sales Company's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.5 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.5 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 111% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #3/7
PHOTO GULF FASTENER, INC.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GULF FASTENER, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Inventory Sales Company averages 2.5 TCR (111% of the Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Inventory Sales Company TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Inventory Sales Company falls in its industry

449 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merc establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merc employers in Missouri.

Inventory Sales Company (183 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Inventory Sales Company has more employees than the Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant whole median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022	1.7	1.2	1	2
2021	2.1	1.1	4	0
2020	3.5	3.5	7	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · MO · St. Louis

449 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GULF FASTENER, INC.	MOBILE, AL	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LaForce - Green Bay	GREEN BAY, WI	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Peace Industries, Ltd.	ROLLING MEADOWS, IL	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dallas Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware	WILMER, TX	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Collins & Hermann	ST. LOUIS	183 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rawlings Sporting Goods Corporate office location	ST. LOUIS	183 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VIP Distributing Company	ST. LOUIS	183 FTE
STATE-SIZE	10457 Kansas City	KANSAS CITY	183 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Monsanto - St. Louis	St. Louis	6,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Anthony's Medical Center	St. Louis	3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ABI Corporation	St. Louis	2,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Saint Louis University Hospital	St. Louis	2,084 FTE
NAT-TCR	Felix Construction Company	Coolidge, AZ	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Raito, Inc.	Union City, CA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chesapeake Uniform Rental, Inc.	Baltimore, MD	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	417 - Massapequa	Massapequa Park, NY	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc.	San Diego, CA	183 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SteelCoast LLC, Company	Brownsville, TX	183 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Siembra Finca FVE LLC	Vega Baja, PR	183 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mine Safety Appliances, LLC	Jacksonville, NC	183 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, 2020. 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.