Freight Trucking LTL · Kansas

548 Baxter Springs

Baxter Springs, KS · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

548 Baxter Springs runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade F.

548 Baxter Springs: 9.1 TCR = 201% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

548 Baxter Springs safety composite

548 Baxter Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−9.1

2016→2018

548 Baxter Springs injury rate improved

548 Baxter Springs's TCR fell 9.1 from 13.6 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.6 · 2018=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Baxter Springs, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 201% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #37/42
  • PHOTO Roadrunner Transport…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roadrunner Transportation Services - Mira Loma (0.0 TCR gap)

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548 Baxter Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 548 Baxter Springs averages 9.1 TCR (201% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

548 Baxter Springs TCR series: 2016=13.6 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 548 Baxter Springs falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 42 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Kansas.

548 Baxter Springs (28 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 548 Baxter Springs
548 Baxter Springs (28 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

548 Baxter Springs has fewer employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2016 13.6 13.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · KS · Baxter Springs

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Baxter Springs, 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 Roadrunner Transportation Services - Mira Loma 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia 160 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Absolute Trucking Services, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUSTIN AUS 9.0 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 KMT Waterjet Systems, Inc. 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bagcraft Packaging-Baxter Springs 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shape Technologies 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bagcraft - Baxter Springs 230 FTE
NAT-TCR Area Residential Care Main Building 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Charles (Lalkc) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR KWF GA East Point Distribution Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4800 Kindred Rehab Hosp Northeast 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Commercial Kitchen Services 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE NAP Gladu Wisconsin 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drought Properties Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byram MS 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: 2018, 2016. 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.