Fencing contractors (except electronic containment fencing for pets) · Missouri

Superior Steel Sales, LLC

Carthage, MO · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Steel Sales, LLC runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fencing contractors (except electronic containment fencing for pets) workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Steel Sales, LLC: 12.5 TCR = 445% of Fencing contractors (except electronic containment fencing for pets) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Steel Sales, LLC safety composite

Superior Steel Sales, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Superior Steel Sales, LLC: 3.8 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2017

Superior Steel Sales, LLC's TCR rose 17.2 from 3.8 in 2016 to 21.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Carthage, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 445% of ind

  • DART 17.6 DART
  • RANK #28/30
  • PHOTO Central Iowa Fencing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Iowa Fencing (0.2 TCR gap)

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Superior Steel Sales, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Steel Sales, LLC averages 12.5 TCR (445% of the Fencing contractors (except electronic containment fencing for pets) BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Steel Sales, LLC TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=21.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Superior Steel Sales, LLC falls in its industry

1,634 Fencing contractors (except el establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 30 Fencing contractors (except el employers in Missouri.

Superior Steel Sales, LLC (28 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Steel Sales, LLC
Superior Steel Sales, LLC (28 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Superior Steel Sales, LLC has fewer employees than the Fencing contractors (except electronic c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2017 21.1 17.6 6 0 0
2016 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · MO · Carthage

1,634 Fencing contractors (except electronic containment fencing for pets) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, 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 Central Iowa Fencing 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CG Scaffolding Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carnahan-White LLC 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Fence 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Hills 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOPV-SEL-PRAIRIE VIEW - LAYING HEN' 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE State Line Combined Cycle 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Substations - South 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlsbad Center (Nmcar) 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Daytona Center (Flday) 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lignetics of Idaho 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Canonsburg Ambulance 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arizona Production Center 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0773 - Enterprise, Al 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0445 - Murrieta, Ca 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0196 - Albany, Ny 28 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: 2017, 2016. 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.