Flour Miling · Kansas

Ardent Mills Newton

Newton, KS · ~69 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Newton runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Miling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Newton: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Flour Miling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Newton safety composite

Ardent Mills Newton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Ardent Mills Newton: 2.5 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Ardent Mills Newton's TCR rose 1.9 from 2.5 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Newton, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Ardent Mills Mankato
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ardent Mills Mankato (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Newton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Newton averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Flour Miling BLS benchmark).

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

Ardent Mills Newton TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Newton falls in its industry

209 Flour Miling establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Flour Miling employers in Kansas.

Ardent Mills Newton (69 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardent Mills Newton
Ardent Mills Newton (69 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Newton has more employees than the Flour Miling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 4.3 2.9 3 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2020 2.5 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · KS · Newton

209 Flour Miling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 32 employers in Newton, 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 Ardent Mills Mankato 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Flour Mill 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GMI KC Mill 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Great Falls 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hill Construction Concrete Paving 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hi-Tech Interiors Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckley Roofing Company, Inc 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR NMC Health 933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterbrand Cabinets 519 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2428 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2428 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Blue Goose Construction LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Contract Electric Co., Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 08029-08-08-ANDERSON 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Bend Health and Rehabilitation 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ardent Mills Ogden 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville OH 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Paw, Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabethtown Ky 69 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020. 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.