Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives · Missouri

St. Joe Methyl Ester

Saint Joseph, MO · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Joe Methyl Ester runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives workplace, earning a grade D.

St. Joe Methyl Ester: 5.3 TCR = 162% of Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Joe Methyl Ester safety composite

St. Joe Methyl Ester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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)
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.7

2019→2020

St. Joe Methyl Ester injury rate improved

St. Joe Methyl Ester's TCR fell 10.7 from 10.7 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Saint Joseph, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO American Greenfuels …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Greenfuels LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Joe Methyl Ester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Joe Methyl Ester averages 5.3 TCR (162% of the Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS benchmark).

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

St. Joe Methyl Ester TCR series: 2019=10.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where St. Joe Methyl Ester falls in its industry

552 Transesterification of vegetab establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Transesterification of vegetab employers in Missouri.

St. Joe Methyl Ester (26 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Joe Methyl Ester
St. Joe Methyl Ester (26 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

St. Joe Methyl Ester has fewer employees than the Transesterification of vegetable oils to median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.7 7.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · MO · Saint Joseph

552 Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 76 employers in Saint Joseph, 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 American Greenfuels LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Stickney 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntsman Advanced Materials, LLC (Ashtabula Facility) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Cargill/Paseo Biodiesel 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knob Noster Pullets 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO96-SEL-HIGHWAY 96- HENS' 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO Hwy 96 006-0138-96, 9G 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Belton Service Cetner 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Medical Center- St. Joseph 4,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Life Care Medical Center 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR Triumph Foods, LLC 2,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 560 371 FTE
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor of Lockport 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LAN 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean View Flowers, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Altus Industries, Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&L - Houma 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid South Steel, Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eide Advantage Building 26 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.