Waste materials merchant wholesalers · Missouri

40HWY

Kansas City, MO · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

40HWY runs at 301% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

40HWY: 6.6 TCR = 301% of Waste materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

40HWY safety composite

40HWY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

40HWY: 6.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

40HWY's TCR rose 2.8 from 6.8 in 2020 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 301% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #29/37
  • PHOTO Far West Recycling -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Far West Recycling - NE Portland (0.0 TCR gap)

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40HWY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 40HWY averages 6.6 TCR (301% of the Waste materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

40HWY TCR series: 2020=6.8 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=14.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 2.2

Where 40HWY falls in its industry

1,126 Waste materials merchant whole establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 37 Waste materials merchant whole employers in Missouri.

40HWY (33 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 40HWY
40HWY (33 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

40HWY has fewer employees than the Waste materials merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 9.6 6.4 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 14.1 14.1 5 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MO · Kansas City

1,126 Waste materials merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, 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 Far West Recycling - NE Portland 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Pipe & Supply, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Plastics 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Recycling Company, LLC - Modesto 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MOA 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharpe Land and Cattle Crop 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOCUST RIDGE #1-3, 5-9 -EST 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOMERSET #F, I, J, N, O, Q, W -EST 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR PA Location 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dietz and Watson 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Hardware Waukegan North 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vulcan Industries Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center - FNS 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Square Lombard - FNS 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Snell Store 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Profile Metal Forming TN 33 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. 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.