Corn flour manufacturing · Missouri

Lifeline Foods

Saint Joseph, MO · ~169 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lifeline Foods runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corn flour manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lifeline Foods: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Corn flour manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lifeline Foods safety composite

Lifeline Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2020→2024

Lifeline Foods injury rate improved

Lifeline Foods's TCR fell 2.3 from 8.0 in 2020 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.0 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Saint Joseph, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Grain Craft LA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grain Craft LA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lifeline Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lifeline Foods averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Corn flour manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lifeline Foods TCR series: 2020=8 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lifeline Foods falls in its industry

209 Corn flour manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 Corn flour manufacturing employers in Missouri.

Lifeline Foods (169 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Lifeline Foods
Lifeline Foods (169 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Lifeline Foods has more employees than the Corn flour manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.7 5.7 10 0 0
2023 8.2 6.4 13 1 0
2022 4.1 3.5 7 0 0
2021 5.7 5.1 9 0 0
2020 8.0 5.3 10 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MO · Saint Joseph

209 Corn flour manufacturing 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 Grain Craft LA 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crete NB 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kankakee Specialty 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Findlay Food Coatings Limited 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HERZOG TECHNOLOGIES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Post Press Specialties 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS INC - Monett 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Billy Goat Industries 169 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 Canam Steel Corp 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C&B Piping, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Regional Transportation Program 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0294 - North Hollywood 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Impossible Foods 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo Transit Management Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 620 Owp 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walser Bloomington Toyota 169 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.