Honey processing · Kansas

Barkman Honey

Hillsboro, KS · ~129 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barkman Honey runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Honey processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Barkman Honey: 3.8 TCR = 93% of Honey processing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barkman Honey safety composite

Barkman Honey scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.5

2020→2024

Barkman Honey injury rate improved

Barkman Honey's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.0 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.0 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Hillsboro, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 93% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Sugar Foods Corporat…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sugar Foods Corporation- Villa Rica (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barkman Honey in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barkman Honey averages 3.8 TCR (93% of the Honey processing BLS benchmark).

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

Barkman Honey TCR series: 2020=4 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Barkman Honey falls in its industry

335 Honey processing establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Honey processing employers in Kansas.

Barkman Honey (129 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Barkman Honey
Barkman Honey (129 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Barkman Honey has more employees than the Honey processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 3.5 2.1 5 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2022 4.3 1.7 5 0 0
2021 4.9 1.6 4 2 0
2020 4.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · KS · Hillsboro

335 Honey processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Hillsboro, 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 Sugar Foods Corporation- Villa Rica 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kent Precision Foods Group-Bolingbrook 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protech Nutra 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill's Pet Nutrition 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jayhawk Fine Chemicals 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Bond Building Medicine Lodge 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atikinsion 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro Community Hospital 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro Industries 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salem Home 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillsboro 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Systems Electro Coating, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reynolds & Doyle, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Public Utilities - Electric 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yargus Manufacturing, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Outlaw Conversions 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Generations at Oakton Pavillion, LLC 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centrus Energy ACO-OR 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Chair Company - F5 129 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.