Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Kansas

Element Ethanol

Colwich, KS · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Element Ethanol runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Element Ethanol: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Element Ethanol safety composite

Element Ethanol scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Element Ethanol: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2020

Element Ethanol's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Colwich, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Pacific Ethanol, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Element Ethanol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Element Ethanol averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Element Ethanol TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Element Ethanol falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 12 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Kansas.

Element Ethanol (44 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Element Ethanol
Element Ethanol (44 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Element Ethanol has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · KS · Colwich

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Colwich, 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 Pacific Ethanol, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid America Agri Products/Wheatland 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moses Lake Industries 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PureField Ingredients, Co-products 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garden City Complex 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Built, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Built, LLC 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR ICM, Inc. 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR ELEMENT, LLC 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mies & Sons - Colwich 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colwich Gardens Assisted Living, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Big State Austin 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PR Healthcare Management Group LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ransom PA 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courytard Philadelphia South 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schuh Construction Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE AP Fabrications, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Edisto Beach 44 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.