Boiler and pipe insulation installation · Missouri

Midwest Materials Company

Joplin, MO · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Materials Company runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boiler and pipe insulation installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Materials Company: 4.6 TCR = 166% of Boiler and pipe insulation installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Materials Company safety composite

Midwest Materials Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Midwest Materials Company: 3.1 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Midwest Materials Company's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.1 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Joplin, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #25/29
  • PHOTO CONNECTIONS ELEVATOR…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CONNECTIONS ELEVATOR, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Materials Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Materials Company averages 4.6 TCR (166% of the Boiler and pipe insulation installation BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Materials Company TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Midwest Materials Company falls in its industry

1,138 Boiler and pipe insulation ins establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 29 Boiler and pipe insulation ins employers in Missouri.

Midwest Materials Company (66 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Materials Company
Midwest Materials Company (66 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Midwest Materials Company has more employees than the Boiler and pipe insulation installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 6.2 1.6 3 1 0
2023 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · MO · Joplin

1,138 Boiler and pipe insulation installation 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 CONNECTIONS ELEVATOR, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Tier Insulations 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vortex Industries - LAS 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cactus Varied Industries 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Road Power Plant 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMI 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE StructSure Projects, Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Insituform Technologies LLC - Chesterfield 66 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 Carowinds 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Manor 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Faber Construction 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Txiah - Iah Gateway 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Urners Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harlingen 10185 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanicsburg 10171 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulfport 10122 66 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.