Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing · Kansas

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain

Emporia, KS · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain: 6.3 TCR = 162% of Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain safety composite

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain: 9.1 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2018

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain's TCR rose 0.9 from 9.1 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Emporia, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #19/24
  • PHOTO KW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain averages 6.3 TCR (162% of the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=9.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain falls in its industry

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 24 Animal feeds, prepared (except employers in Kansas.

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain (21 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain
Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain (21 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ag Choice Emporia Feed and Grain has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.1 9.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · KS · Emporia

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 63 employers in Emporia, 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 KW 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Creston 2 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bourdeau Bros Inc. Champlain 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSM Nutritional Products ANH/NA - Pendergrass 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 101-107, 127 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hills Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Rush Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordon Evans Energy Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA PET FOOD 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emporia Plant 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman Regional Health 600 FTE
NAT-TCR Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Willow Grove 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Care Beltline 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Linc 0371 (Smyrna - F) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 044 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASL 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freemansburg #33 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayeteville Store #1609 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallipolis OH Depot 21 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, 2017, 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.