Fireworks merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Spirit of '76 Fireworks

Columbia, MO · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spirit of '76 Fireworks runs at 461% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fireworks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Spirit of '76 Fireworks: 10.1 TCR = 461% of Fireworks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spirit of '76 Fireworks safety composite

Spirit of '76 Fireworks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Spirit of '76 Fireworks: 4.3 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2022

Spirit of '76 Fireworks's TCR rose 7.4 from 4.3 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423920 · Columbia, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 461% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Branch Plant Marion IN
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch Plant Marion IN (0.9 TCR gap)

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Spirit of '76 Fireworks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spirit of '76 Fireworks averages 10.1 TCR (461% of the Fireworks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Spirit of '76 Fireworks TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=21.4 · 2019=3.2 · 2022=11.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Spirit of '76 Fireworks falls in its industry

55 Fireworks merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 4 Fireworks merchant wholesalers employers in Missouri.

Spirit of '76 Fireworks (36 employees, TCR 10.1) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 Spirit of '76 Fireworks
Spirit of '76 Fireworks (36 employees, TCR 10.1) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Spirit of '76 Fireworks has fewer employees than the Fireworks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 11.7 5.8 6 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 21.4 8.6 5 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423920 · MO · Columbia

55 Fireworks merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 270 employers in Columbia, 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 Branch Plant Marion IN 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldorado 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ludo Fact USA LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BMI Merchandise 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARYLAND HEIGHTS_1435038 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Louis Shipyard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPP Management 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Service Plumbing Service/Maintenance and Air Services HVAC Service/Maintenance 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equipmentshare.com, Inc. 5,242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mortgage Research Center 2,903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boone Hospital Center 1,562 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 684 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZPUL 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadow Lakes 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mableton 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-Aa-Msy-New Orleans-Msy-Trml 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CareGivers America LLC Mifflintown Office 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Heights PDC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mpls Nokomis Clinic 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Data Center 36 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, 2019, 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.