Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing · Missouri

NorthStar Battery Plant 1

Springfield, MO · ~384 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

NorthStar Battery Plant 1: 9.5 TCR = 288% of Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 safety composite

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

NorthStar Battery Plant 1: 6.5 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

NorthStar Battery Plant 1's TCR rose 4.8 from 6.5 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335911 · Springfield, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 288% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO EnerSys Tubing Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~384 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EnerSys Tubing Plant (0.8 TCR gap)

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NorthStar Battery Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NorthStar Battery Plant 1 averages 9.5 TCR (288% of the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where NorthStar Battery Plant 1 falls in its industry

161 Lead acid storage batteries ma establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Lead acid storage batteries ma employers in Missouri.

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 (384 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NorthStar Battery Plant 1
NorthStar Battery Plant 1 (384 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.1

NorthStar Battery Plant 1 has more employees than the Lead acid storage batteries manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2020 11.3 11.3 24 4 0
2019 10.7 9.1 33 0 0
2018 9.6 7.6 27 7 0
2016 6.5 5.5 18 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335911 · MO · Springfield

161 Lead acid storage batteries manufacturing 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 EnerSys Tubing Plant 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bulldog Battery South 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interspace Battery Corp. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBS of Greater Boston 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE St Louis 064 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Boonville 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jost Chemical Company 383 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 The City of Statesville 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Adult Addictions Receiving Facility 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Duluth 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Plains Ord LLC 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TIMET- Morgantown 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yarde Metals, Inc.: Connecticut 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Fruit Co-Portland 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stonyfield Farm, Inc. 384 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.