Pallet Wood Plant · Missouri

St. Louis,MO - 469

St. Louis, MO · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Louis,MO - 469 runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade F.

St. Louis,MO - 469: 8.0 TCR = 241% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Louis,MO - 469 safety composite

St. Louis,MO - 469 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

St. Louis,MO - 469: 5.7 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

St. Louis,MO - 469's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.7 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · St. Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 241% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #18/27
  • PHOTO Paltech Enterprises …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paltech Enterprises of Arkansas - Carthage, MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Louis,MO - 469 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Louis,MO - 469 averages 8.0 TCR (241% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

St. Louis,MO - 469 TCR series: 2022=5.7 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where St. Louis,MO - 469 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

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 27 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Missouri.

St. Louis,MO - 469 (35 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Louis,MO - 469
St. Louis,MO - 469 (35 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

St. Louis,MO - 469 has fewer employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2023 11.9 8.9 4 0 0
2022 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MO · St. Louis

952 Pallet Wood Plant 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 Paltech Enterprises of Arkansas - Carthage, MO 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palletworks Statham 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conner Fayetteville TN plant 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RM Pallets Inc. 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Nuclear - Leadership Team 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Substations South 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Dorsett District 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Meter Services - UEC 35 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 Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox Valley Farms 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Hare Airport 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deepwater Corrosion Services 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murfreesboro II 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mill Creek 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Precision & Engineering 35 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. 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.