Meat Processed From Carcasses · Missouri

St Joseph Plant

St Joseph, MO · ~761 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St Joseph Plant runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat Processed From Carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

St Joseph Plant: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St Joseph Plant safety composite

St Joseph Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

St Joseph Plant held a steady TCR band

St Joseph Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.6 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=15.6 · 2022=12.6 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · St Joseph, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #20/28
  • PHOTO RYC Foods
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~761 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RYC Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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St Joseph Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St Joseph Plant averages 7.1 TCR (215% of the Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

St Joseph Plant TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=15.6 · 2022=12.6 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where St Joseph Plant falls in its industry

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 28 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers in Missouri.

St Joseph Plant (761 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate St Joseph Plant
St Joseph Plant (761 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

St Joseph Plant has more employees than the Meat Processed From Carcasses median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 2.4 1.9 18 5 0
2023 2.0 1.2 10 8 0
2022 12.6 12.5 12 99 0
2021 15.6 15.5 11 101 0
2020 14.9 14.2 19 92 0
2019 4.2 3.2 20 10 0
2018 2.4 1.8 13 3 0
2017 2.6 1.9 15 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MO · St Joseph

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 37 employers in St 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 RYC Foods 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arck Foods, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hofmann Sausage Co 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0210 - TRACY CA MEAT PLANT 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nevada 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO_St. Louis_12405 Powerscourt_21111000 760 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Louis Campus Residential 758 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woods Supermarket 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph DAP 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. JOSEPH MO - 3210 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Jo Frontier Casino 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR HERZOG RAILROAD SERVICES INC - MPM, CLIPCAR, GPS, RUM 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Forest Plant 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Watsonville Distribution Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Doyle Sims & Sons Trucking Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheriff's Office 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Arkansas Regional Medical Center 761 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital 761 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollingsworth Corporate Office: Warren Ave. 761 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.