Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing · Missouri

Peterson Manufacturing Company

Grandview, MO · ~307 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Peterson Manufacturing Company runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
5.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
5.4
industry benchmark (BLS)
90
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Peterson Manufacturing Company's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.8 to the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing BLS benchmark of 5.4 (108% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Peterson Manufacturing Company's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 5.4 industry benchmark.

3456789 20162017201820202021 7.85.4 Industry benchmarkPeterson Manufacturing Company TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 336320.

Where Peterson Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

240 Automotive lighting fixtures m establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Automotive lighting fixtures m employers in Missouri.

Trend analysis for Peterson Manufacturing Company

Between 2016 and 2021, Peterson Manufacturing Company's Total Case Rate worsened from 6.1 to 7.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 28% increase across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 3.7, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 7.8, a spread of 4.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Peterson Manufacturing Company recorded 90 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 90 injuries, 2 illnesses shown on this page for Peterson Manufacturing Company are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 336320 - Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

20 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 638,266 hours worked = 6.27 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Peterson Manufacturing Company (this establishment) 5.84 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Instrument control panels (i.e., assembling purchased gauges), automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing industry avg 5.40 BLS IIF, NAICS 336320
Missouri state avg (all industries) 4.57 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Peterson Manufacturing Company to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 7.8 6.3 25 0 0
2020 4.5 1.4 13 0 0
2018 3.7 1.9 12 0 0
2017 7.0 4.1 20 2 0
2016 6.1 3.1 20 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Peterson Manufacturing Company's reported OSHA injury record versus its Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 108% of the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing benchmark, Peterson Manufacturing Company reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Peterson Manufacturing Company's safety grade?
Peterson Manufacturing Company has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 5.4 for Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing.
How many injuries has Peterson Manufacturing Company reported?
Peterson Manufacturing Company has reported 90 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2021, 2020, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.