Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing · Kansas

DeSoto, KS Facility

Desoto, KS · ~227 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeSoto, KS Facility runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

DeSoto, KS Facility: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeSoto, KS Facility safety composite

DeSoto, KS Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DeSoto, KS Facility: 0.7 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

DeSoto, KS Facility's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.7 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Desoto, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Snedden Drive
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snedden Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeSoto, KS Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeSoto, KS Facility averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DeSoto, KS Facility TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where DeSoto, KS Facility falls in its industry

234 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, vir establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

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 4 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, vir employers in Kansas.

DeSoto, KS Facility (227 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate DeSoto, KS Facility
DeSoto, KS Facility (227 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

DeSoto, KS Facility has more employees than the Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 2.0 1.7 6 0 0
2023 2.2 0.4 3 3 0
2022 2.9 2.0 6 1 0
2021 1.7 1.3 4 0 0
2020 2.4 0.8 5 1 0
2019 1.7 0.4 3 1 0
2018 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.5 1.9 4 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · KS · Desoto

234 Vaccines (i.e., bacterial, virus) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Desoto, 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 Snedden Drive 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison West 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protein Sciences Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn, NE Facility 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GNB KCK LLC 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 368 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rehabilitation Hospital of Overland Park 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viega LLC McPherson KS - Manufacturing 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huhtamaki De Soto 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Engineered Air 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehrig Pacific Company Kansas 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Primetals Technologies-Decatur 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlington Office #2001 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elgin 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Packaged Gas Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cust-O-Fab Sand Springs 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAC Trailer Manufacturing, Inc 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersen Interior Contracting, Inc. 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis 227 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.