Salt, table, manufacturing · Kansas

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant

Lyons, KS · ~116 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Salt, table, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant: 4.8 TCR = 117% of Salt, table, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant safety composite

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−0.4

2016→2018

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant injury rate improved

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant's TCR fell 0.4 from 5.0 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2018=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Lyons, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO All Seasonings Ingre…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: All Seasonings Ingredients - Oneida, NY (0.1 TCR gap)

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Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant averages 4.8 TCR (117% of the Salt, table, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant TCR series: 2016=5 · 2018=4.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant falls in its industry

200 Salt, table, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #6 safest of 7 Salt, table, manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant (116 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant
Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant (116 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Compass Minerals - Lyons Evaporation Plant 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
2018 4.6 1.1 2 2 0
2016 5.0 3.0 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · KS · Lyons

200 Salt, table, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Lyons, 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 All Seasonings Ingredients - Oneida, NY 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry-Manitowoc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR APK INC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry - Red Arrow 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SUNFLOWER PAVING, INC 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bob Bergkamp Construction 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Master 3016 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aerospace Systems & Components, Inc. 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital District #1 of Rice County 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Compass Minerals 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kansas Ethanol, LLC 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knight Feedlot Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-TCR KTL 53012 Madison 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vance DMB 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CAPT 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BRX 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regal Beloit America, Inc (Shallow Ford) 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Canton Transfer , LLC 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Oilwell Varco Galena Park 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1004-40 GoJet ORD Pilots 116 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: 2018, 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.