Cold storage warehousing · Missouri

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe

St. Joseph, MO · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe: 9.8 TCR = 169% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe safety composite

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe: 8.3 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2023

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe's TCR rose 3.0 from 8.3 in 2022 to 11.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · St. Joseph, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.8 · 169% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Upper Lakes Foods LL…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Upper Lakes Foods LLC Janesville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe averages 9.8 TCR (169% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=11.3 · BLS 5.8

Where Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

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 28 Cold storage warehousing employers in Missouri.

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe (31 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe
Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe (31 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nor-Am Cold Storage St Joe has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 11.3 11.3 3 0 0
2022 8.3 5.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MO · St. Joseph

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 101 employers in St. 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 Upper Lakes Foods LLC Janesville 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Prairie Foods 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBI Punta Gorda DC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coolport at Maritime 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Opal-Foods Coporate Office 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE NeCo Seed Farms, Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE S Services - KC Central 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fregalette Construction 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR MW 1,685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health 961 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Community Office 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph MO DAP 622 FTE
NAT-TCR Salmon Falls Resort 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Place Albuquerque Airport 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Senior Living 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pontiac Mi 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Rochester 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE BT Ankeny 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southside Home Health 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOCORP, Inc. 31 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: 2023, 2022. 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.