Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Kansas

03 Topeka, KS

Topeka, KS · ~28 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

03 Topeka, KS runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

03 Topeka, KS: 5.2 TCR = 249% of Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

03 Topeka, KS safety composite

03 Topeka, KS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

03 Topeka, KS: 4.5 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

03 Topeka, KS's TCR rose 1.3 from 4.5 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 249% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #34/47
  • PHOTO 23 Brunswick, OH
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 23 Brunswick, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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03 Topeka, KS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 03 Topeka, KS averages 5.2 TCR (249% of the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

03 Topeka, KS TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=9 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=3 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 2.1

Where 03 Topeka, KS falls in its industry

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 47 Heavy machinery and equipment employers in Kansas.

03 Topeka, KS (28 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 03 Topeka, KS
03 Topeka, KS (28 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

03 Topeka, KS has fewer employees than the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2020 11.6 11.6 3 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 9.0 4.5 2 0 0
2017 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · KS · Topeka

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 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 23 Brunswick, OH 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RPM & Associates / RPM Solutions 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR De Pere, WI Shop 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakes and Plains Construction Inc. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Ranch Feed Yard 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hefier Source, LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard Scott City 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Trio Equipment Company 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lafourche Sugars LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dodson Service Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bartush Signs, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 18 Columbus, OH 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 19 Cincinnati, OH 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roche Oil Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE PVA TePla America, LLC 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.