Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard · Missouri

Aspen Products - Kansas City

Kansas City, MO · ~498 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aspen Products - Kansas City runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Aspen Products - Kansas City: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aspen Products - Kansas City safety composite

Aspen Products - Kansas City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Aspen Products - Kansas City: 1.4 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2019

Aspen Products - Kansas City's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Huhtamaki- Fulton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huhtamaki- Fulton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aspen Products - Kansas City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aspen Products - Kansas City averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Aspen Products - Kansas City TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=6.3 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Aspen Products - Kansas City falls in its industry

140 Paper plates made from purchas establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Paper plates made from purchas employers in Missouri.

Aspen Products - Kansas City (498 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Aspen Products - Kansas City
Aspen Products - Kansas City (498 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Aspen Products - Kansas City has more employees than the Paper plates made from purchased paper o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 3.5 2.3 18 0 0
2017 6.3 4.7 30 1 0
2016 1.4 0.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · MO · Kansas City

140 Paper plates made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 Huhtamaki- Fulton 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WestRock F&B 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPS Chicago Tube 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Tube Plant 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lico Steel, Inc. 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butterball LLC 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Columbia MO 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE KraftHeinz-Columbia 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR WDI - Portland 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise / National / Alamo - Santa Barbara Airport 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Flambeau Middlefield 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New-Indy Containerboard Oxnard 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silverado Resort & Spa 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE BISSELL Homecare, Inc. 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cti Foods 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tuscaloosa Plant 498 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.