Book stores · Missouri

MBS Direct

Columbia, MO · ~308 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MBS Direct runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Book stores workplace, earning a grade A.

MBS Direct: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Book stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MBS Direct safety composite

MBS Direct scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

MBS Direct held a steady TCR band

MBS Direct's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 451211 · Columbia, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P90
  • PHOTO Tree of Life Booksto…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~308 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tree of Life Bookstores, LP (0.5 TCR gap)

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MBS Direct in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MBS Direct averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Book stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

MBS Direct TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=1 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=0.4 · BLS 3.4

Where MBS Direct falls in its industry

10 Book stores establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
MBS Direct (308 employees, TCR 0.9) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 3.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 0100200300400 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tree of Life Bookstores, LPPowell's Books -- HawthorneSlingshotPowell's Books -- BurnsideSchuler BooksPowell's Books -- Cedar Hills CrossingMBS Direct
MBS Direct (308 employees, TCR 0.9) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 3.2

MBS Direct has more employees than the Book stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2021 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 0.7 0.3 2 0 0
2018 2.5 1.1 7 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2016 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

451211 · MO · Columbia

10 Book stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 270 employers in Columbia, 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 Tree of Life Bookstores, LP 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell's Books -- Cedar Hills Crossing 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Slingshot 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightning Source 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 631 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 78 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 189 308 FTE
STATE-SIZE 621 SAINT LOUIS 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equipmentshare.com, Inc. 5,242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mortgage Research Center 2,903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boone Hospital Center 1,562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 684 FTE
NAT-TCR BUSCH LLC. Virginia beach 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BD Sumter 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon Films Inc. North Carolina 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 60TT 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peek Pavement Marking, LLC. 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toyota Boshoku Mississippi, LLC 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham Exchange Club Industries 308 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Sales and Marketing Unit 17 308 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.