Railroad cars merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Comet Industries

Kansas City, MO · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Comet Industries runs at 582% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Railroad cars merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Comet Industries: 12.8 TCR = 582% of Railroad cars merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Comet Industries safety composite

Comet Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.4

2018→2024

Comet Industries injury rate improved

Comet Industries's TCR fell 1.4 from 13.2 in 2018 to 11.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 99.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.2 · 2019=19.0 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=11.5 · 2023=99.5 · 2024=11.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423860 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 582% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Advanced Machining a…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Machining and Tooling (0.8 TCR gap)

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Comet Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Comet Industries averages 12.8 TCR (582% of the Railroad cars merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Comet Industries TCR series: 2018=13.2 · 2019=19 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=11.5 · 2023=99.5 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Comet Industries falls in its industry

107 Railroad cars merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Railroad cars merchant wholesa employers in Missouri.

Comet Industries (76 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Comet Industries
Comet Industries (76 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Comet Industries has more employees than the Railroad cars merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2024 11.8 7.4 8 0 0
2023 99.5 66.3 6 0 0
2021 11.5 5.8 6 0 0
2020 8.4 4.8 7 0 0
2019 19.0 8.6 20 0 0
2018 13.2 7.5 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423860 · MO · Kansas City

107 Railroad cars merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 Advanced Machining and Tooling 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & L Aerospace LLC 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier 94 Truck Service 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Northland Service Center 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bilfinger Industrial Services Inc. Home Office 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knoebel Construction, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1116 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR COD035 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridge 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New Garden Landscaping 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aiken County Detention Center 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE DT Irvine Spectrum 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE David Dobbs Enterprises 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHEP Modesto Service Center (UTB5) 76 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.