Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Kansas

Api Ks Mfg

Lawrence, KS · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Api Ks Mfg runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Api Ks Mfg: 4.7 TCR = 141% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Api Ks Mfg safety composite

Api Ks Mfg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.0

2016→2019

Api Ks Mfg injury rate improved

Api Ks Mfg's TCR fell 6.0 from 8.6 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Lawrence, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO West Carrollton Parc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Carrollton Parchment & Converting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Api Ks Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Api Ks Mfg averages 4.7 TCR (141% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Api Ks Mfg TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Api Ks Mfg falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Kansas.

Api Ks Mfg (73 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Api Ks Mfg
Api Ks Mfg (73 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Api Ks Mfg has fewer employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2019 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2018 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2016 8.6 4.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · KS · Lawrence

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, 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 West Carrollton Parchment & Converting 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 685 Industrial Drive 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TESA PLANT SPARTA, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR API Lawrence Fin 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Victory Electric Cooperative Assn., Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Fertilizer, LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICI MANUFACTURING 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 484 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Mechanical Tool & Engineering 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ceco Door 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TFC Jackson Feedmill 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX nSequence 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakland Collection 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centralized Showing Service-RAL NC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newton Drive 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30 New Hampshire Avenue, Portsmouth, NH 03801 73 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: 2019, 2018, 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.