Employer · Missouri

MSU - Garst

Springfield, MO · ~60 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MSU - Garst runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

MSU - Garst: 4.6 TCR = 152% of industry BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MSU - Garst safety composite

MSU - Garst scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

MSU - Garst: 3.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

MSU - Garst's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.0 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Springfield, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 152% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #88/153
  • PHOTO U of Ark ARKU
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: U of Ark ARKU (0.0 TCR gap)

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MSU - Garst in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MSU - Garst averages 4.6 TCR (152% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MSU - Garst TCR series: 2018=3 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=9 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.0

Where MSU - Garst falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 153 industry employers in Missouri.

MSU - Garst (60 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MSU - Garst
MSU - Garst (60 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

MSU - Garst has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2023 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 9.0 4.5 2 0 0
2020 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · MO · Springfield

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 633 employers in Springfield, 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 U of Ark ARKU 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT AH UT ATHENS HOSPITAL ES 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SBU SUBWAY 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR M6259 Smyth County* 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - O'Fallon 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platte/Clay Electric Cooperative 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black River Electric Cooperative, Fredericktown Office 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERZOG CONTRACTING CORP - ASPHALT 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD 4,885 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime, Inc. HQ 3,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corp 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bass Pro Corporate 1,888 FTE
NAT-TCR Pt-Seton Med Aust 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR U of Ark ARKU 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0904 - Grand Rapids 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1017 - Chester 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Uwgb Board Dining 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE BGSU Starbucks 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Google Big Table 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE GenesisMedCtrDavenportEast EVS 60 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, 2019, 2018. 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.