Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis · Kansas

Brown Industries

Name: Brown Industries Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lawrence, KS · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Brown Industries runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade F.

Brown Industries: 9.9 TCR = 299% of Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brown Industries safety composite

Brown Industries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Brown Industries: 8.2 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2017

Brown Industries's TCR rose 3.4 from 8.2 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Lawrence, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 299% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #9/10
PHOTO Donovan Equipment Co…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Donovan Equipment Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Brown Industries averages 9.9 TCR (299% of the Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

Brown Industries TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Brown Industries falls in its industry

470 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dum establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dum employers in Kansas.

Brown Industries (80 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Brown Industries has fewer employees than the Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2017	11.6	1.8	2	11	0
2016	8.2	5.8	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KS · Lawrence

470 Boxes, truck (e.g., cargo, dump, utility, van), assembled on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Donovan Equipment Co Inc	LONDONDERRY, NH	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CITE Armored	HOLLY SPRINGS, MS	9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BettsHD - Fresno	FRESNO, CA	10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Swab Wagon Company, Inc	ELIZABETHVILLE, PA	9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	FreeState Electric Cooperative Inc	TOPEKA	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SCA Construction	INDEPENDENCE	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Star Lumber, Truss	WICHITA	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kamps Kansas City	KANSAS CITY	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Berry Global	Lawrence	905 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant	Lawrence	807 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amarr Entrematic	Lawrence	717 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 484	Lawrence	348 FTE
NAT-TCR	Stafford (Txsta)	Stafford, TX	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Austin (Txaus)	Austin, TX	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Augusta (Gaaug)	Augusta, GA	9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hospital Couriers Houston	Sugarland, TX	9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab LLC	Excelsior Springs, MO	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1730 LKQ/Keystone	Phoenix, AZ	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Communications Specialists, Inc.	Mechanisville, VA	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atlantic Spring	Ringoes, NJ	80 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: 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.