Lightning protection equipment manufacturing · Kansas

EMP Shield Inc.

Burlington, KS · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMP Shield Inc. runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Lightning protection equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

EMP Shield Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Lightning protection equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMP Shield Inc. safety composite

EMP Shield Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

EMP Shield Inc. held a steady TCR band

EMP Shield Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 2.1 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335931 · Burlington, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO American Superconduc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Superconductor Corporation- Ayer, Massachusetts (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMP Shield Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMP Shield Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Lightning protection equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

EMP Shield Inc. TCR series: 2021=2.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where EMP Shield Inc. falls in its industry

152 Lightning protection equipment establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
EMP Shield Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate EMP Shield Inc.
EMP Shield Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 2.0

EMP Shield Inc. has fewer employees than the Lightning protection equipment manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335931 · KS · Burlington

152 Lightning protection equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Burlington, 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 American Superconductor Corporation- Ayer, Massachusetts 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regal Beloit America, Inc Bowling Green, OH 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hubbell Connector Manufacturing Company Alabama 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Special Mine Services-IL 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Kismet 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Contracting 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAMCO, Inc 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation. 1,225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolf Creek - Evergy 1,085 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolf Creek Generating Station 937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington Medical Investors LLC dba Life Care Center of Burlington 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Tobaccoville Manufacturing 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Raising Cane'S Chicken Fingers C693 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Depot of Illinois, Inc - Rockford 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sprout California 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northrup Community 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Enterprises LLC- Northwood 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenwood 51 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. 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.