Beef produced in slaughtering plants · Kansas

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC

Arkansas City, KS · ~1,049 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC: 5.4 TCR = 162% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC safety composite

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2018→2024

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC injury rate improved

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC's TCR fell 3.1 from 5.9 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.9 · 2019=8.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 162% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Louisa County Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 187 inj
  • SIZE ~1,049 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Louisa County Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC averages 5.4 TCR (162% of the Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=8.3 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in Kansas.

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC (1,049 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC (1,049 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC has more employees than the Beef produced in slaughtering plants median and a higher 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
2024 2.8 1.7 35 0 0
2023 4.5 2.7 54 1 0
2019 8.3 7.1 54 8 0
2018 5.9 3.8 44 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · KS · Arkansas City

212 Beef 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Louisa County Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholas Meats 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Center Harvest Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Plainwell INC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SALINA PLANT 1,055 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nebraska Furniture Mart 1,067 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 1,030 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas 1,083 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creekstone Farms 1,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Strother, KS 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Services : Strother, KS 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR KANPAKUS Manufacturing Arkansas City 264 FTE
NAT-TCR 1085 - Cherry Hill 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2627 - Azusa 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Market on State, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1912 - Mundelein 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dillon Plant 1,049 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth Fish Memorial 1,049 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autoliv ASP, Inc. 1,049 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mohegan Sun Pocono 1,049 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.