Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Missouri

Joplin Cereal

Joplin, MO · ~206 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joplin Cereal runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Joplin Cereal: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joplin Cereal safety composite

Joplin Cereal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Joplin Cereal: 2.7 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.1× in 2024

Joplin Cereal's TCR rose 3.6 from 2.7 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Joplin, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P28
  • PHOTO General Mills (Buffa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills (Buffalo Cereal) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joplin Cereal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joplin Cereal averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Joplin Cereal TCR series: 2023=2.7 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Joplin Cereal falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Joplin Cereal (206 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Joplin Cereal
Joplin Cereal (206 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Joplin Cereal has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 6.3 0.5 12 2 0
2023 2.7 0.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · MO · Joplin

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 203 employers in Joplin, 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 General Mills (Buffalo Cereal) 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Millers Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oats Overnight 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE RS Electric Corp 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volpi Foods 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 01 - KC 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMC Industries, Inc. 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeman Health System 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL JOPLIN 1,561 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmic Fire & Safety Company Inc. 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper Products, LLC 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Pueblo 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Paair - Airport 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmer City 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Panel Craft, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Adare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison Industrial Services Team 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemon Grove Care and Rehabilitation 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infrastructure Reston Office 206 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. 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.