Pesticides manufacturing · Missouri

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn

Kansas City, MO · ~596 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pesticides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Pesticides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn safety composite

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn held a steady TCR band

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.9 in 2018 to 0.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.9 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Elemental Enzymes
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~596 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elemental Enzymes (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Pesticides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=1 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn falls in its industry

145 Pesticides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 15 Pesticides manufacturing employers in Missouri.

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn (596 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn
Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn (596 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Bayer US - Kansas City / Hawthorn has more employees than the Pesticides manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2022 0.9 0.5 5 1 0
2021 2.7 2.2 2 14 1
2020 0.6 0.3 3 1 0
2019 1.0 0.3 6 0 0
2018 0.9 0.3 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · MO · Kansas City

145 Pesticides manufacturing 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 Elemental Enzymes 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wondercide, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agrochem USA LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muscatine, IA 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 04606300-00W004 QUIET LOGISTICS, INC.-QUIET LOGISTICS, INC. 596 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCDC Hannibal 593 FTE
STATE-SIZE PayneCrest Electric 603 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dexter Plant 604 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 Cardinal Health of Augusta 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 431 Payran St 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerelco Electrical Contractors, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4Front Engineered Solutions - Sussex 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Florham Park 596 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stitch Fix - Dallas 596 FTE
NAT-SIZE 216567-New Orleans La P&Dc 596 FTE
NAT-SIZE Theradynamics Rehab Management LLC 596 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.