Drywall contractors · Missouri

John Bender Inc

St Louis, MO · ~235 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Bender Inc runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

John Bender Inc: 5.6 TCR = 201% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Bender Inc safety composite

John Bender Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

John Bender Inc: 3.3 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2023

John Bender Inc's TCR rose 7.3 from 3.3 in 2018 to 10.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · St Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #22/28
  • PHOTO Sherman Construction…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherman Construction Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Bender Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Bender Inc averages 5.6 TCR (201% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

John Bender Inc TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2020=3.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 2.8

Where John Bender Inc falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 Drywall contractors employers in Missouri.

John Bender Inc (235 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate John Bender Inc
John Bender Inc (235 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

John Bender Inc has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 10.6 7.1 9 0 0
2022 4.8 2.4 4 0 0
2020 3.8 2.9 4 0 0
2018 3.3 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MO · St Louis

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 349 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 Sherman Construction Incorporated 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittsburgh Region 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinzler Construction Services-EIA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apple Valley Insulation (BDI) #893 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meramec Group, Inc. 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stockyards Expressway 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seyer Industries 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE 914 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital South 3,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4M Building Solutions 2,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services Higher Education 1,607 FTE
NAT-TCR Jamestown Regional Medical Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2607 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Millwork & Lumber Co Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE D Courtney Construction 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global, Inc. 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renzi Foodservice 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSM-ODFL 235 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018. 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.