Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Missouri

VSM Abrasives

O'Fallon, MO · ~3 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

VSM Abrasives runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

VSM Abrasives: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VSM Abrasives safety composite

VSM Abrasives scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−216.9

2022→2024

VSM Abrasives injury rate improved

VSM Abrasives's TCR fell 216.9 from 224.4 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 288.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=224.4 · 2023=288.5 · 2024=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · O'Fallon, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Cersosmio Lumber Com…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~3 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cersosmio Lumber Company - Hardwick Kiln Dry (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Missouri employers → · Look up another →

VSM Abrasives in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VSM Abrasives averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VSM Abrasives TCR series: 2022=224.4 · 2023=288.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where VSM Abrasives falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Missouri.

VSM Abrasives (3 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate VSM Abrasives
VSM Abrasives (3 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

VSM Abrasives has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.5 7.5 7 0 0
2023 288.5 256.4 9 0 0
2022 224.4 192.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · MO · O'Fallon

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 68 employers in O'Fallon, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Cersosmio Lumber Company - Hardwick Kiln Dry 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR StairSupplies-Plant 1W, 1614 Eisenhower Dr. North 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartzell Hardwoods, Inc. - Piqua 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lignetics - White Pigeon Michigan 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SGF 3 FTE
STATE-SIZE Faith Healthcare LLC dba Faith Home Healthcare & Faith Hospice Palliative Care LLC 2 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise_GP67 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernie Farmers Gin Holdings, LLC 1 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'FALLON 1,682 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAK Construction, LLC 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress West Hospital 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR 306 Ofa1000 337 FTE
NAT-TCR CLC Calloway 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Resdoor 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Lynwood 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 006 Plaza del Caribe 7.5 TCR

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.