Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Essendant: Kansas City OE

North Kansas City, MO · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essendant: Kansas City OE runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Essendant: Kansas City OE: 4.6 TCR = 208% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Kansas City OE safety composite

Essendant: Kansas City OE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2019→2020

Essendant: Kansas City OE injury rate improved

Essendant: Kansas City OE's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.7 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.7 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · North Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 208% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO S.P. Richards Co.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S.P. Richards Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Kansas City OE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essendant: Kansas City OE averages 4.6 TCR (208% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Essendant: Kansas City OE TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Kansas City OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Missouri.

Essendant: Kansas City OE (41 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essendant: Kansas City OE
Essendant: Kansas City OE (41 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Kansas City OE has fewer employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · MO · North Kansas City

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 113 employers in North Kansas City, MO · 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 S.P. Richards Co. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant Cranbury OE 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essendant: Nashville OE 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR S P RICHARDS COMPANY 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CoverCress INC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Doe Run Company Exploration & Development 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8FB - Nuclear - Radiation Protection 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 03H - Sub Mtce and Const - UEC West 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garney Holding Company 1,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrah's Kansas City 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR PrimeTech International 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthCare Hospice House 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Fairfax Services 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Charlotte Center City 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #107 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Xanitos Laundry at Erlanger Medical Center 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vantage Equipment LLC, Syracuse Branch 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE QuantumClean-San Jose 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region 04 CCSR FL-GA 90-04-01-96 41 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.