Reducers, speed, manufacturing · Missouri

Superior Gearbox Co.

Buffalo, MO · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Gearbox Co. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Reducers, speed, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Superior Gearbox Co.: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Reducers, speed, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Gearbox Co. safety composite

Superior Gearbox Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Superior Gearbox Co.: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2024

Superior Gearbox Co.'s TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Buffalo, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Nord Gear Corona
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nord Gear Corona (0.1 TCR gap)

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Superior Gearbox Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Gearbox Co. averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Reducers, speed, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Gearbox Co. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=8.2 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Gearbox Co. falls in its industry

106 Reducers, speed, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Superior Gearbox Co. (23 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Gearbox Co.
Superior Gearbox Co. (23 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Superior Gearbox Co. has fewer employees than the Reducers, speed, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 9.0 9.0 2 0 0
2021 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · MO · Buffalo

106 Reducers, speed, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 12 employers in Buffalo, 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 Nord Gear Corona 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rossi North America - Suwanee 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warner Electric 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moore Gear & Manufacturing Co 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coon Creek 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opal-Foods Bird Moving Crew 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carthage Live Ops 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Springs Healthcare Center 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR 845 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 845 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnson Tractor - Rochelle 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Granger 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke Homes Services,Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte,NC - 231 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Salina Kirwin 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maine 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orange TX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9 - Rochester 23 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, 2021, 2020. 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.