Beef produced in slaughtering plants · Kansas

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington

Wellington, KS · ~97 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington safety composite

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington injury rate improved

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Wellington, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Gibbon Packing
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gibbon Packing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington falls in its industry

212 Beef produced in slaughtering establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 Beef produced in slaughtering employers in Kansas.

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington (97 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington
Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington (97 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Elkhorn Valley Packing Wellington has fewer employees than the Beef produced in slaughtering plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2022 4.0 2.4 4 1 0
2021 4.5 2.3 6 0 0
2020 4.5 0.8 6 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2018 4.7 3.1 6 0 0
2017 5.5 2.7 5 1 0
2016 2.1 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · KS · Wellington

212 Beef produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Wellington, 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 Gibbon Packing 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Protein Dodge City 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Marshalltown 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tar Heel Fresh 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reddi Services Inc 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Salt - Hutchinson 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORBIS Osage City 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAIN PLANT, RM,EXC,TRK,ADMIN 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR McAlister Oil, LLC 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 370 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR 370 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR McAlister Transportation 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Richmond Medical Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Portage Medical Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Six Lakes Service Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherry Point SC Yard 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transystems LLC - Paul Project 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milco Industries, Inc. 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saguaro Drywall Company, Inc. 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0628 Louisville 97 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.