Employer · Kansas

Emporia Flex Plant

Emporia, KS · ~574 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Emporia Flex Plant runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Emporia Flex Plant: 0.6 TCR = 16% of industry BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Emporia Flex Plant safety composite

Emporia Flex Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−0.6

2020→2024

Emporia Flex Plant injury rate improved

Emporia Flex Plant's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.0 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.0 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Emporia, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/23
  • PHOTO Nestle Purina Petcar…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~574 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Purina Petcare - Eden, NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Emporia Flex Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Emporia Flex Plant averages 0.6 TCR (16% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Emporia Flex Plant TCR series: 2020=1 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Emporia Flex Plant falls in its industry

302 industry establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 23 industry employers in Kansas.

Emporia Flex Plant (574 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Emporia Flex Plant
Emporia Flex Plant (574 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Emporia Flex Plant has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.5 0.3 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.1 4 1 0
2022 0.3 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.6 0.0 3 0 0
2020 1.0 0.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Emporia

302 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 63 employers in Emporia, 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 Nestle Purina Petcare - Eden, NC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NomNomNow Inc CHR 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCB-Meadville 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC4 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jet.com FC-6925 577 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSGER - EDGERTON HUB 578 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZOLA 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA PET FOOD 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emporia Plant 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman Regional Health 600 FTE
NAT-TCR John Crane Swedesboro 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jesse Stutts Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terik Roofing Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 61-Usf-Olf Red Mill 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leprino Foods Roswell 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE C. F. Martin & Co., Inc. 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flex-N-Gate Detroit 32-0487145 574 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avmac LLC 574 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. 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.