Employer · Kansas

230 - Independence

Independence, KS · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

230 - Independence runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

230 - Independence: 3.0 TCR = 88% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

230 - Independence safety composite

230 - Independence scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

230 - Independence: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

230 - Independence's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 6.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Independence, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/26
  • PHOTO 71179
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71179 (0.0 TCR gap)

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230 - Independence in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 230 - Independence averages 3.0 TCR (88% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

230 - Independence TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=6 · BLS 3.4

Where 230 - Independence falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #13 safest of 26 industry employers in Kansas.

230 - Independence (64 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 230 - Independence
230 - Independence (64 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

230 - Independence has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2022 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · KS · Independence

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Independence, 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 71179 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71022 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm and Fleet of Freeport 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 34 Yuma 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE OP KGS DIV GO 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Excel Constructors, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunflower Wind Project 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettis Contractors, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Independence 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Motor Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2893 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2893 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio Steel Industries, Plastics Div. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 708 - Stockton 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Human Technologies US5 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Central Florida Shared Services 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE C. Abbonizio Contractors Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1203 - Ithaca 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1438 - Southeast Huntsville 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1445 - Yulee 64 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: 2022, 2020. 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.