Salt, table, manufacturing · Kansas

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson

Hutchinson, KS · ~97 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Salt, table, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson: 3.8 TCR = 93% of Salt, table, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson safety composite

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson: 1.6 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2023

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.6 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Hutchinson, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 93% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Flavor & Fragrance S…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flavor & Fragrance Specialties (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Salt - Hutchinson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Salt - Hutchinson averages 3.8 TCR (93% of the Salt, table, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Cargill Salt - Hutchinson falls in its industry

200 Salt, table, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Salt, table, manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson (97 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Salt - Hutchinson
Cargill Salt - Hutchinson (97 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Salt - Hutchinson has more employees than the Salt, table, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 5.5 5.5 6 0 0
2022 6.7 5.9 8 0 0
2021 3.4 3.4 2 2 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · KS · Hutchinson

200 Salt, table, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 94 employers in Hutchinson, 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 Flavor & Fragrance Specialties 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Seasonings Ingredients, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Citrus Extracts LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Latitude 36 Foods, LLC dba Hyde & Hyde 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reddi Services Inc 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORBIS Osage City 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAIN PLANT, RM,EXC,TRK,ADMIN 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System 1,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Medical Center 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR 794 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 794 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Wireless - Denver, CO 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spencer Industries Incorporated 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gan Eden Farm, LLc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent-A-Car 557Z 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ES/Well Services Division - 03 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE WHB Transportation 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seachrome Corporation 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spieker Company 97 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.