Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing · Kansas

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant

Lewis, KS · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant safety composite

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant held a steady TCR band

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.2 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.2 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333995 · Lewis, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Milwaukee Cylinder
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milwaukee Cylinder (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cylinder Manufacturing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cylinder Manufacturing Plant averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2021=4 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Cylinder Manufacturing Plant falls in its industry

137 Cylinders, fluid power, manufa establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 8 Cylinders, fluid power, manufa employers in Kansas.

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant (50 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cylinder Manufacturing Plant
Cylinder Manufacturing Plant (50 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Cylinder Manufacturing Plant has fewer employees than the Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 3.9 2.0 2 0 0
2021 4.0 0.0 1 1 0
2020 4.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333995 · KS · Lewis

137 Cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Milwaukee Cylinder 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lehigh Fluid Power, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Engineering Company 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Precision Inc 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ford County Feeders LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Cattle Feeders North #2 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Label Tech, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alphagraphics #4 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beartooth Manor 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TWI-South 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE GEODynamics Benbrook 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vinyl Design Corporation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young Mfg., Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE HighamCoInc 50 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, 2020. 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.