Carbon black manufacturing · Kansas

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant

Ulysses, KS · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Carbon black manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Carbon black manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant safety composite

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant held a steady TCR band

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Ulysses, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/6
  • PHOTO HoneywellAL37
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HoneywellAL37 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Carbon black manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant falls in its industry

418 Carbon black manufacturing establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 6 Carbon black manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant (49 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant
Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant (49 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Columbian Chemicals Company Hickok Plant has fewer employees than the Carbon black manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · KS · Ulysses

418 Carbon black manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 16 employers in Ulysses, 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 HoneywellAL37 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingleside Plant 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albemarle 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westlake Chemical Sout 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur County Beef, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE ULYSSES FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Cattle Feeders 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohlde Dairy 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Kansas Irrigation, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grant County Feeders 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Aviation Other : Virtual Employee Roll-Up Site 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AZ-01 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CT-02 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NJ-05 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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.