Binoculars manufacturing · Missouri

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc.

St. Louis, MO · ~234 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Binoculars manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Binoculars manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. safety composite

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 & Mfg. Co., Inc.: 2.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2023

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 2.4 in 2020 to 3.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.85× 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 C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Wixom Trijicon
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wixom Trijicon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Binoculars manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. falls in its industry

145 Binoculars manufacturing establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #5 safest of 5 Binoculars manufacturing employers in Missouri.

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. (234 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 & Mfg. Co., Inc.
Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. (234 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co., Inc. has more employees than the Binoculars manufacturing 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
2023 3.2 2.4 8 0 0
2020 2.4 1.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · MO · St. Louis

145 Binoculars 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 Wixom Trijicon 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fosta-Tek Optics 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OptoTest Corp 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Optics 1 Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilster Mary-Lee Perryville Mix Plant 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAI CREW MCI 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE 01VT 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Inc. 234 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 Electrolurgy Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinpak Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Escondido Ca Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Umatilla Electric Cooperative - Headquarters 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SDS Lumber LLC. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jordan Ford Ltd. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point Tours Inc. Vails Gate 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tx Cmop 234 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: 2023, 2020. 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.