Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other plastics foam (except polystyrene) manufacturing · Kansas

Coleman Company - NEKS

Wichita, KS · ~682 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Coleman Company - NEKS runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other plastics foam (except polystyrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Coleman Company - NEKS: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other plastics foam (except polystyrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coleman Company - NEKS safety composite

Coleman Company - NEKS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−2.8

2016→2019

Coleman Company - NEKS injury rate improved

Coleman Company - NEKS's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.2 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Future Foam Plant 38
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~682 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Future Foam Plant 38 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coleman Company - NEKS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coleman Company - NEKS averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other plastics foam (except polystyrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Coleman Company - NEKS TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Coleman Company - NEKS falls in its industry

474 Ice chests or coolers, urethan establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Ice chests or coolers, urethan employers in Kansas.

Coleman Company - NEKS (682 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Coleman Company - NEKS
Coleman Company - NEKS (682 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Coleman Company - NEKS has more employees than the Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 2.3 0.6 14 1 0
2018 3.8 0.5 27 1 0
2017 3.9 0.8 33 0 0
2016 5.2 1.6 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · KS · Wichita

474 Ice chests or coolers, urethane or other plastics foam (except polystyrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 Future Foam Plant 38 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novation iQ 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Plant 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRFT-SOTEX 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Manufacturing Facility - KNA 677 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black & Veatch - X Building 677 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Boats, LLC 675 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICTPW9667 ICT - RAMP PAX 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Countryside Health & Living 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheelabrator Portsmouth Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 213 - Madison East 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospital Couriers Denver (Cosp) 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Independence Family Health Center 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : MEM5 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE Procopio Building 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Pueblo, CA - 1PUCO 682 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.