Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Missouri

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin

Joplin, MO · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin: 3.5 TCR = 90% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin safety composite

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin: 1.6 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.6 in 2023 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Joplin, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 90% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO BHJ - Omaha
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BHJ - Omaha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin averages 3.5 TCR (90% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 22 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Missouri.

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin (129 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin
Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin (129 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.4 5.4 6 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MO · Joplin

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 203 employers in Joplin, 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 BHJ - Omaha 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breeder's Choice Pet Foods 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Foods 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Mills Halifax, VA 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CertainTeed Jonesburg 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stahl Specialty Company, Warrensburg, MO. 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Act Lighting-Jackson MO 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battenfeld Technologies Inc 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeman Health System 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL JOPLIN 1,561 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmic Fire & Safety Company Inc. 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper Products, LLC 782 FTE
NAT-TCR 2nd Home Totowa LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Econolite Group, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ponce Ground Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CRRC MA Corporation Springfield 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Long Prairie 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Somerby Sandy Springs 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delmar Gardens of Overland Park 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diplomat Healthcare 129 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.