Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade · Missouri

Paulo - Murfreesboro

St. Louis, MO · ~69 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paulo - Murfreesboro runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Paulo - Murfreesboro: 5.2 TCR = 159% of Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paulo - Murfreesboro safety composite

Paulo - Murfreesboro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−7.5

2016→2024

Paulo - Murfreesboro injury rate improved

Paulo - Murfreesboro's TCR fell 7.5 from 12.8 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.8 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=11.0 · 2021=1.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Specialty Steel Trea…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Specialty Steel Treating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paulo - Murfreesboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paulo - Murfreesboro averages 5.2 TCR (159% of the Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Paulo - Murfreesboro TCR series: 2016=12.8 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=11 · 2021=1.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Paulo - Murfreesboro falls in its industry

248 Heat treating metals and metal establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Heat treating metals and metal employers in Missouri.

Paulo - Murfreesboro (69 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Paulo - Murfreesboro
Paulo - Murfreesboro (69 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Paulo - Murfreesboro has more employees than the Heat treating metals and metal products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 5.3 2.6 3 1 0
2023 2.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 11.0 11.0 2 5 0
2019 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2018 5.7 4.6 5 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2016 12.8 10.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · MO · St. Louis

248 Heat treating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 686 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 Specialty Steel Treating, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paulo - St. Louis 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atmosphere Annealing Canton 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR THERMOFUSION INC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Substation Maintenance Metro 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Builder's Bloc Drywall Services, LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&S Tower Services 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marschel Wrecking LLC 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monsanto - St. Louis 6,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Medical Center 3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABI Corporation 2,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Louis University Hospital 2,084 FTE
NAT-TCR NCS 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Chief Ethanol Fuels Lexington 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Chief Fabrication 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerali Custom Design, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Watson McDaniel Company 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Ecology Nevada 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE ULX 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE 801 Merrick Avenue 69 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.