Hardware stores · Kansas

Big R of Liberal, LLC.

Liberal, KS · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big R of Liberal, LLC. runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Big R of Liberal, LLC.: 4.5 TCR = 133% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big R of Liberal, LLC. safety composite

Big R of Liberal, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Big R of Liberal, LLC.: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

Big R of Liberal, LLC.'s TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444140 · Liberal, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Big R of Santa Fe, L…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big R of Santa Fe, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big R of Liberal, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big R of Liberal, LLC. averages 4.5 TCR (133% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Big R of Liberal, LLC. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Big R of Liberal, LLC. falls in its industry

90 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 Hardware stores employers in Kansas.

Big R of Liberal, LLC. (23 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big R of Liberal, LLC.
Big R of Liberal, LLC. (23 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Big R of Liberal, LLC. has fewer employees than the Hardware stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2024 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444140 · KS · Liberal

90 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 34 employers in Liberal, 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 Big R of Santa Fe, LLC. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Limon, LLC. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHC Chatham 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Trinidad, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Corporate 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syracuse Feedyard 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steven Cox Associates 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heinen Brothers Ag - Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Beef Packing Company 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCI - LIBERAL 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 799 313 FTE
NAT-TCR Harris Beverages LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Mechanical Inc., United Mechanical Service, Donohue Commercial Service 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Symmons Industries 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caledonia 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Growmark Fs, LLC - Knowlesville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Binghamton-Johnson City 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE DairyChem Laboratories, Inc 23 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. 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.