Aircraft manufacturing · Kansas

APPH Wichita, Inc.

Wichita, KS · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

APPH Wichita, Inc. runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

APPH Wichita, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

APPH Wichita, Inc. safety composite

APPH Wichita, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

APPH Wichita, Inc.: 2.4 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2020

APPH Wichita, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.1 from 2.4 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO Safran Seats USA, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Safran Seats USA, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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APPH Wichita, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows APPH Wichita, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

APPH Wichita, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where APPH Wichita, Inc. falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Aircraft manufacturing employers in Kansas.

APPH Wichita, Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate APPH Wichita, Inc.
APPH Wichita, Inc. (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

APPH Wichita, Inc. has fewer employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 7.5 3.7 2 0 0
2019 5.5 2.8 2 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · KS · Wichita

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 Safran Seats USA, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overhaul Support Services - 5 CT 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gulfstream Product Support 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems OKKUS 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur County Beef, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE ULYSSES FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Cattle Feeders 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohlde Dairy 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Coghlin Construction Services, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR American Girl Atlanta 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ave Maria Village/SMP Health System 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-545-Pottery Barn 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7541-Enphg-Univ of Arts Philadelphia 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millers New Market Genoa 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millers Supervalu Clyde 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Klauer Manufacturing Co. - Washington Plant 49 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.