Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing · Missouri

Blount - KC Blades

Kansas City, MO · ~156 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blount - KC Blades runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Blount - KC Blades: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blount - KC Blades safety composite

Blount - KC Blades scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.8

2016→2021

Blount - KC Blades injury rate improved

Blount - KC Blades's TCR fell 0.8 from 5.3 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Intimidator Group
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Intimidator Group (0.2 TCR gap)

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Blount - KC Blades in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blount - KC Blades averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blount - KC Blades TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Blount - KC Blades falls in its industry

91 Lawn and garden equipment manu establishments

Safer than 29% 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 5 Lawn and garden equipment manu employers in Missouri.

Blount - KC Blades (156 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blount - KC Blades
Blount - KC Blades (156 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Blount - KC Blades has fewer employees than the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing 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
2021 4.5 2.3 8 0 0
2020 3.5 1.8 4 2 0
2019 2.5 1.9 3 1 0
2018 7.7 4.5 8 4 0
2017 9.1 9.1 14 0 0
2016 5.3 4.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · MO · Kansas City

91 Lawn and garden equipment 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 Intimidator Group 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTD - Leitchfield 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Deere Horicon Works 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ariens Company 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fenton 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Septagon Construction Company 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ideker Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE TSI Global Companies, LLC MO 156 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 FAMCO 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RM Phoenix 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Okemah Paperboard 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville TN Yard 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mechanical Construction Managers, LLC 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44381d - Miami Zone 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE HYS 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bannockburn 156 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.