Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Kansas

Barton County Feeders

Ellinwood, KS · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barton County Feeders runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Barton County Feeders: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barton County Feeders safety composite

Barton County Feeders scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Barton County Feeders: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2024

Barton County Feeders's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Ellinwood, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #15/50
  • PHOTO Imperial Beef
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial Beef (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barton County Feeders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barton County Feeders averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Barton County Feeders TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=5.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Barton County Feeders falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 50 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Kansas.

Barton County Feeders (31 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Barton County Feeders
Barton County Feeders (31 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Barton County Feeders has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2023 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2019 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Ellinwood

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Ellinwood, 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 Imperial Beef 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Eckley 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hale Center Feedyard 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lariat Feeders, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1509 W MAPLE INDEPENDENCE KS 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Construction, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Julius Kaaz Construction 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Azria Health Woodhaven 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR INA Alert INC 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain State 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercer 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Hall Wise 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 019/Perimeter 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE FPS 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill International Trucks WWV 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE TNT Crane & Rigging - Beaumont Branch 31 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.