Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing · Missouri

Jost Chemical Comapny

St. Louis, MO · ~274 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jost Chemical Comapny runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Jost Chemical Comapny: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jost Chemical Comapny safety composite

Jost Chemical Comapny scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Jost Chemical Comapny: 7.2 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2017

Jost Chemical Comapny's TCR rose 2.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Jones-Hamilton Co.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jones-Hamilton Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jost Chemical Comapny in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jost Chemical Comapny averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Jost Chemical Comapny TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=9.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Jost Chemical Comapny falls in its industry

418 Zinc compounds, not specified establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Zinc compounds, not specified employers in Missouri.

Jost Chemical Comapny (274 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Jost Chemical Comapny
Jost Chemical Comapny (274 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Jost Chemical Comapny has more employees than the Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 Fatalities
2017 9.4 5.5 28 1 0
2016 7.2 4.3 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · MO · St. Louis

418 Zinc compounds, not specified elsewhere by process, manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Jones-Hamilton Co. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Micronutrients USA, LLC - Warehouse 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckman's Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sealy Plant 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frick's Quality Meats 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 25 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZSPM 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE TKG StorageMart Partners III, LP 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monsanto - St. Louis 6,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABI Corporation 2,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Louis University Hospital 2,084 FTE
NAT-TCR Headquarters 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Russ Darrow LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aig Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Oak Package Center (Iareo) 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Office - 01 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZWOLLE 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaGuardia Airport 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Chevrolet Sugar Land LLC 274 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: 2017, 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.