Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Kansas

BTI Great Bend

Great Bend, KS · ~41 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BTI Great Bend runs at 433% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

BTI Great Bend: 9.5 TCR = 433% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BTI Great Bend safety composite

BTI Great Bend scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−4.3

2020→2024

BTI Great Bend injury rate improved

BTI Great Bend's TCR fell 4.3 from 8.9 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.9 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Great Bend, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 433% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #34/36
  • PHOTO Heritage Tractor Smi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Tractor Smithville (0.1 TCR gap)

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BTI Great Bend in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BTI Great Bend averages 9.5 TCR (433% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

BTI Great Bend TCR series: 2020=8.9 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where BTI Great Bend falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 36 Planting machinery and equipme employers in Kansas.

BTI Great Bend (41 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BTI Great Bend
BTI Great Bend (41 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

BTI Great Bend has more employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.6 2.3 2 0 0
2023 11.3 0.0 5 0 0
2022 9.7 4.9 4 0 0
2021 13.2 7.9 5 0 0
2020 8.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · KS · Great Bend

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 40 employers in Great Bend, 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 Heritage Tractor Smithville 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYDENSTRICKER IMPLEMENT-CURRYVILLE 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYDENSTRICKER IMPLEMENT-PALMYRA 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenwood Store 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinsley Feeders, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salina Service Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Sheeting & Shoring 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Griffith Steel Erection, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jomax Construction Co., Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 770 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR 770 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunflower Diversified Services, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-TCR 30027 Capstone - Mdi Hickory Nc 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinzler Construction Services - Cedar Rapids 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shorb Landscaping (Kensington) 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside TLF, LLC 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 627 Manhattan Fire Protection District 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 62037 Capstone - Usf Boca Raton Fl 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE MA030HYM 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY017CRG 41 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.