Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant

Hiawatha, KS · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant: 5.8 TCR = 148% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant safety composite

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant: 8.5 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2024

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant's TCR rose 2.4 from 8.5 in 2017 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hiawatha, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 148% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO Barrett Ag Service, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant averages 5.8 TCR (148% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant TCR series: 2017=8.5 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #20 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant (26 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant
Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant (26 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2024 10.9 10.9 3 0 0
2023 10.2 7.6 3 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 8.5 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Hiawatha

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Hiawatha, 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 Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensenig's Feed Mill 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LinkOne Potato Solutions, LLC Burley 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neosho Valley Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heifer Source, LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pittsburg Service Center 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beloit District 2 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hiawatha Community Hospital 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 342 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR 342 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hiawatha Cabinets 145 FTE
NAT-TCR Friesen's Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reale Construction Co.,Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Hill Veneer 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Action Southland Towing 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of South Central California-Ming & Ashe 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amber Oaks Assisted Living 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transcare 26 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.