Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · Missouri

Ostara Inc.

St Louis, MO · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ostara Inc. runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Ostara Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ostara Inc. safety composite

Ostara Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.8 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2023→2024

Ostara Inc. injury rate improved

Ostara Inc.'s TCR fell 1.4 from 4.2 in 2023 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.2 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · St Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO The Scotts Company -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Scotts Company - Lakeville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ostara Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ostara Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark).

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

Ostara Inc. TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ostara Inc. falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in Missouri.

Ostara Inc. (37 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ostara Inc.
Ostara Inc. (37 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ostara Inc. has fewer employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2023 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · MO · St Louis

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 349 employers in St Louis, 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 The Scotts Company - Lakeville 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCSC Hatfield Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Rochester 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Earth Recycling Oahu 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Substations West 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Dorsett 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Geraldine 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Geraldine District 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital South 3,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4M Building Solutions 2,111 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services Higher Education 1,607 FTE
NAT-TCR Neumann Brothers, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fieldale Farms - Murrayville Live Haul 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Signode Angleboard 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ioka Farms 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pepsi-Cola of Iron Mountain 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arborscapes LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baxter Construction 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE THERMOSEAL INC Sidney 37 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.