Fats, animal (except poultry, small game), produced in slaughtering plants · Kansas

Creekstone Farms

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Arkansas City, KS · ~1,167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Creekstone Farms runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fats, animal (except poultry, small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Creekstone Farms: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Fats, animal (except poultry, small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creekstone Farms safety composite

Creekstone Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
Fatalities: C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Creekstone Farms: 2.8 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2022

Creekstone Farms's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.8 in 2021 to 4.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Arkansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #7/12
PHOTO Lone Star Beef Proce…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 79 inj
SIZE ~1,167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lone Star Beef Processors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lone Star Beef

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WR Reserve

3.7
USA Pork Packe

3.7

What this shows Creekstone Farms averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Fats, animal (except poultry, small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Creekstone Farms TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Creekstone Farms falls in its industry

212 Fats, animal (except poultry, establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Fats, animal (except poultry, employers in Kansas.

Creekstone Farms (1,167 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Creekstone Farms has more employees than the Fats, animal (except poultry, small game median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2022	4.7	4.0	54	3	0
2021	2.8	2.3	25	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · KS · Arkansas City

212 Fats, animal (except poultry, small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 32 employers in Arkansas City, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Lone Star Beef Processors	SAN ANGELO, TX	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Butler, WI Plant	BUTLER, WI	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WR Reserve	HASTINGS, NE	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	USA Pork Packers, Inc.	HAZLETON, PA	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Crossland Construction Company, Inc.	COLUMBUS	1,154 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AGCO : Hesston	HESSTON	1,189 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Menorah medical center	OVERLANPARK	1,136 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AGCO Hesston	HESSTON	1,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC	Arkansas City	1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Supply Chain : Strother, KS	Arkansas City	775 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Services : Strother, KS	Arkansas City	663 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KANPAKUS Manufacturing Arkansas City	Arkansas City	264 FTE
NAT-TCR	Endless Mountain Stone Company	Susquehanna, PA	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ashley Construction Inc.	Edgewood, KY	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Better Brands, Inc.	Myrtle Beach, SC	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Prairie House -Maquoketa	Maquoketa, IA	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CVG1	Hebron, KY	1,167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dallas (NMAC)	Irving, TX	1,167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1741 Ashland Ave	Baltimore, MD	1,167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NAIC2	Edwardsville, IL	1,167 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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