Bale throwers manufacturing · Nebraska

Chief Agri Industrial

Kearney, NE · ~161 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chief Agri Industrial runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bale throwers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Chief Agri Industrial: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Bale throwers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chief Agri Industrial safety composite

Chief Agri Industrial scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Chief Agri Industrial: 0.6 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

Chief Agri Industrial's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Kearney, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO Seeding - Moline
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seeding - Moline (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chief Agri Industrial in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chief Agri Industrial averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Bale throwers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chief Agri Industrial TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Chief Agri Industrial falls in its industry

433 Bale throwers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 24 Bale throwers manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Chief Agri Industrial (161 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Chief Agri Industrial
Chief Agri Industrial (161 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Chief Agri Industrial has more employees than the Bale throwers manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2023 2.5 1.3 4 0 0
2022 1.3 0.7 1 1 0
2021 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2020 3.9 1.9 6 0 0
2019 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2018 2.4 1.2 4 0 0
2017 3.5 2.3 6 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · NE · Kearney

433 Bale throwers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 100 employers in Kearney, NE · 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 Seeding - Moline 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson Products 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alamo Group (TX) Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindsay Irrigation Solutions, LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valmont Industries 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Drake-Williams Steel 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Industries 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chief Fabrication 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Kearney 1,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney Facility 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-26100001-261001 791 FTE
NAT-TCR Mack Manufacturing, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Solo Cup Company Chicago 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manhattan Sc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carole Fabrics Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Equipment Corporation New Knoxville 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay City SC 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kadant Black Clawson LLC 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE XCW 161 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, 2019, 2018, 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.