Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils · Missouri

Ventura Foods STJ

St. Joseph, MO · ~175 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura Foods STJ runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils workplace, earning a grade C.

Ventura Foods STJ: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura Foods STJ safety composite

Ventura Foods STJ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2024

Ventura Foods STJ injury rate improved

Ventura Foods STJ's TCR fell 1.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · St. Joseph, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Catania Spagna Corpo…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catania Spagna Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ventura Foods STJ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ventura Foods STJ averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils BLS benchmark).

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

Ventura Foods STJ TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ventura Foods STJ falls in its industry

86 Margarine-butter blend made fr establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Margarine-butter blend made fr employers in Missouri.

Ventura Foods STJ (175 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ventura Foods STJ
Ventura Foods STJ (175 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ventura Foods STJ has more employees than the Margarine-butter blend made from purchas median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 3.6 3.1 8 0 0
2023 4.0 3.0 8 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2021 4.7 4.2 4 4 0
2019 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.6 1.0 2 1 0
2016 5.1 5.1 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · MO · St. Joseph

86 Margarine-butter blend made from purchased fats and oils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 101 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 Catania Spagna Corporation 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods Fort Worth 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Des Moines Refinery 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACH Food Companies, Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ACGI a subsidiary of Armstrong World Industries 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICL Americas HQ 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbridge Corporation 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE SRG Global Coatings LLC 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR MW 1,685 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health 961 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Community Office 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph MO DAP 622 FTE
NAT-TCR Stutz Excavating, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kukurin Contracting, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ong Er Muskogee Sc 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 07 Lansing 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant Wansley 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooks-Berry-Haynie & Associates GA 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodard 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perrysburg 1102 175 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.