Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing · Missouri

Sensory Effects/ Balchem

Bridgeton, MO · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sensory Effects/ Balchem runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sensory Effects/ Balchem: 2.9 TCR = 70% of Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sensory Effects/ Balchem safety composite

Sensory Effects/ Balchem 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.89 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%).

Sensory Effects/ Balchem held a steady TCR band

Sensory Effects/ Balchem's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.9 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.9 · 2022=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311930 · Bridgeton, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 70% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Owatonna, MN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owatonna, MN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sensory Effects/ Balchem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sensory Effects/ Balchem averages 2.9 TCR (70% of the Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sensory Effects/ Balchem TCR series: 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Sensory Effects/ Balchem falls in its industry

96 Fruit syrups, flavoring, manuf establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 Fruit syrups, flavoring, manuf employers in Missouri.

Sensory Effects/ Balchem (99 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sensory Effects/ Balchem
Sensory Effects/ Balchem (99 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Sensory Effects/ Balchem has more employees than the Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2022 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311930 · MO · Bridgeton

96 Fruit syrups, flavoring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 131 employers in Bridgeton, 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 Owatonna, MN 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DairyChem Laboratories, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen Flavors, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensient Flavors, LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawthorn Generating Station 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stolze Printing Company, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&B Pharma, Inc. dba Alkem Laboratories 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDI 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePaul Hospital - St. Louis 1,683 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hussmann Corporation- Bridgeton MFG 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hussmann Corporation - Bridgeton 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1188 404 FTE
NAT-TCR Hartland Hills 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eudora Location 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ENGY Southwest Container Products, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1209 Commack 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grenzebach Newnan 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE el super #39 mt vernon 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Gratiot Medical Center-Food 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Super #11 Euclid 99 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: 2022, 2021. 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.