Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · Kansas

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203

Hutchinson, KS · ~14 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade B.

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203: 2.0 TCR = 72% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 safety composite

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Hutchinson, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/49
  • PHOTO APAC-Central Johnso…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: APAC-Central Johnson Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 averages 2.0 TCR (72% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=6 · BLS 2.8

Where APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 falls in its industry

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 49 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in Kansas.

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 (14 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203
APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 (14 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4203 has fewer employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KS · Hutchinson

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 94 employers in Hutchinson, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR APAC-Central Johnson Shop 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR All States Construction, Inc. Sunderland 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction - Paving 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Asphalt-1- 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vigen Construction- Sterling, KS 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE APAC KS Inc., Shears Division - Heavy Highway 4284 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE VHC Van Hoecke Contracting, Inc. 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City 108 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System 1,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Medical Center 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR 794 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 794 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Sault Ste Marie 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR IL.CHICA.128 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR White Lake Middle School 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR William A. Hazel, Inc 2.0 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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