Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing · Missouri

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc.

St. Louis, MO · ~178 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. safety composite

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc.: 0.7 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2019

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.7 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · St. Louis, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Kimball Physics
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimball Physics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=3 · 2019=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. falls in its industry

145 Gun sighting and fire control establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #4 safest of 5 Gun sighting and fire control employers in Missouri.

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. (178 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. (178 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Seiler Instrument and Manufacturing Company, Inc. has more employees than the Gun sighting and fire control equipment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2019 3.4 0.9 8 0 0
2018 3.0 2.0 6 0 0
2017 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · MO · St. Louis

145 Gun sighting and fire control equipment and instruments, optical, manufacturing 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 Kimball Physics 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenlight Optics LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nightforce Optics 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester Precision Optics 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carboline Company-Schuetz 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milbank Manufacturing Concordia 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Killark 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 888 178 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 Shire- Lexington 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaford DE Feed Mill 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Louisville Riverside Hotel 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR KIK Custom Products 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regulatory Services 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 129 - Bloomington-IL 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE KCOI 178 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.