Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing · Kansas

De Soto

De Soto, KS · ~109 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

De Soto runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

De Soto: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

De Soto safety composite

De Soto scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−1.5

2022→2023

De Soto injury rate improved

De Soto's TCR fell 1.5 from 1.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · De Soto, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/29
  • PHOTO Accuseal
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Accuseal (0.0 TCR gap)

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De Soto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows De Soto averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

De Soto TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where De Soto falls in its industry

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, ma establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #3 safest of 29 Trash containers, plastics, ma employers in Kansas.

De Soto (109 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate De Soto
De Soto (109 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

De Soto has more employees than the Trash containers, plastics, manufacturin median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.5 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · KS · De Soto

2,838 Trash containers, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in De Soto, 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 Accuseal 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nemera Buffalo Grove LLC - 600 Deerfield Parkway, Buffalo Grove, Illinois 60089 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braeside Holdings LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Norman Molding LLC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Underground Pipeline Services, LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Justin, TX 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weckworth Manufacturing Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE 07-Park City 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huhtamaki De Soto 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUPERTINO ELECTRIC, INC. - KANSAS OPERATIONS 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom Foods, Inc. 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Project Kansas 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Bos2 - Board of Supervisors 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SEGLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BT Memphis 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Assessor's Office 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wireless - East Syracuse 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shorebreak Resort 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE GGP Production (Elkmont) 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ctp - Holloman Afb, Nm 109 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: 2023, 2022. 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.