Employer · Kansas

1943 - Wichita Far West

Wichita, KS · ~133 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1943 - Wichita Far West runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

1943 - Wichita Far West: 7.8 TCR = 229% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1943 - Wichita Far West safety composite

1943 - Wichita Far West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

1943 - Wichita Far West: 2.8 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2021

1943 - Wichita Far West's TCR rose 9.9 from 2.8 in 2019 to 12.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 229% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO 1355 York West
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1355 York West (0.0 TCR gap)

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1943 - Wichita Far West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1943 - Wichita Far West averages 7.8 TCR (229% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

1943 - Wichita Far West TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2021=12.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 1943 - Wichita Far West falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 26 industry employers in Kansas.

1943 - Wichita Far West (133 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1943 - Wichita Far West
1943 - Wichita Far West (133 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

1943 - Wichita Far West has more employees than the industry 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
2021 12.7 5.1 3 7 0
2019 2.8 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · KS · Wichita

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 1355 York West 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2101 - Roseville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2197 - Westminster NE 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 481 Shelby Township 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Massman Construction Co. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE INX International Ink Co. (6800) 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webco Manufacturing, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. - Lucas 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Cartage Company Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nova Infusion 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 07DO/VB/NZ/HG 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frene Valley of Hermann 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4818-CSRS 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-OHCL 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Corporate & Milwaukee 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 300 East River Drive 133 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: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.