Carpentry, framing · Missouri

Square Up Builders, LLC

St. Louis, MO · ~177 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Square Up Builders, LLC runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carpentry, framing workplace, earning a grade D.

Square Up Builders, LLC: 4.2 TCR = 149% of Carpentry, framing BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Square Up Builders, LLC safety composite

Square Up Builders, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2024

Square Up Builders, LLC injury rate improved

Square Up Builders, LLC's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.7 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238130 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 149% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Heyboer & Bolt, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heyboer & Bolt, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Square Up Builders, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Square Up Builders, LLC averages 4.2 TCR (149% of the Carpentry, framing BLS benchmark).

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

Square Up Builders, LLC TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=8.5 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=2.6 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Square Up Builders, LLC falls in its industry

387 Carpentry, framing establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 8 Carpentry, framing employers in Missouri.

Square Up Builders, LLC (177 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Square Up Builders, LLC
Square Up Builders, LLC (177 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Square Up Builders, LLC has more employees than the Carpentry, framing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 1.2 0.6 2 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 10 0 0
2022 3.3 1.6 8 0 0
2021 6.2 2.9 13 0 0
2019 2.6 1.1 5 0 0
2018 0.7 0.0 0 1 0
2017 8.5 2.9 9 0 0
2016 5.7 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238130 · MO · St. Louis

387 Carpentry, framing 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 Heyboer & Bolt, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDM Constructors INC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR En Fuego Construction, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interiors Baltimore- Cleveland Construction 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kodiak Service Center 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - MO MGO Gas 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Office 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burgers Smokehouse Headquarters 177 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 Beta Plastics 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GRS Transportation, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1665 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucker Door and Trim Monroe 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 107 - GB San Jose 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derst Baking Company 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Allen Hospital 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHC University 177 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.