Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Kansas

Deer Creek

Topeka, KS · ~407 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deer Creek runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Deer Creek: 5.3 TCR = 129% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deer Creek safety composite

Deer Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−5.2

2016→2024

Deer Creek injury rate improved

Deer Creek's TCR fell 5.2 from 8.6 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2018=6.0 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Mary's Harvest Fresh…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 135 inj
  • SIZE ~407 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mary's Harvest Fresh Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deer Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deer Creek averages 5.3 TCR (129% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Deer Creek TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2018=6 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Deer Creek falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Kansas.

Deer Creek (407 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Deer Creek
Deer Creek (407 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Deer Creek has more employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.4 2.9 15 0 0
2023 4.9 4.2 21 0 0
2022 3.6 2.7 19 0 0
2018 6.0 4.4 36 1 0
2016 8.6 6.8 44 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · KS · Topeka

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, 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 Mary's Harvest Fresh Foods 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haig's Delicacies 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kabobs 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Solutions - FFT 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Wolf Lodge 407 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPL Mid-America LLC - Kansas 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Urban Outfitters KC1 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jomax Construction Co., Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR 3395 - Bronx Fordham Road 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Age Electric, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Custom Built, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ozark Electric Cooperative- James River Office 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE LAXGATEWAY 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Hospital 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amex Nooter 407 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millennium Corporation 407 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, 2022, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.