Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Kansas

Farrar Corporation Norwich

Norwich, KS · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farrar Corporation Norwich runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Farrar Corporation Norwich: 4.5 TCR = 84% of Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farrar Corporation Norwich safety composite

Farrar Corporation Norwich scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Farrar Corporation Norwich held a steady TCR band

Farrar Corporation Norwich's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=11.0 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Norwich, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO J.G. Kern Enterprise…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.G. Kern Enterprises Inc. HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Farrar Corporation Norwich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farrar Corporation Norwich averages 4.5 TCR (84% of the Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Farrar Corporation Norwich TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=11 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 5.4

Where Farrar Corporation Norwich falls in its industry

320 Transaxles, automotive, truck, establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Transaxles, automotive, truck, employers in Kansas.

Farrar Corporation Norwich (88 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Farrar Corporation Norwich
Farrar Corporation Norwich (88 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Farrar Corporation Norwich has fewer employees than the Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2017 11.0 7.3 9 0 0
2016 3.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · KS · Norwich

320 Transaxles, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Norwich, 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 J.G. Kern Enterprises Inc. HQ 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodale Auto-Truck Parts Co., Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alto Products Corp 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axletech International 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spandet Dairy KS 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. Non Spirit 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedrock Concrete LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wray Roofing, Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foundry Norwich 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norwich Machine shop 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Greenville Place 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A.I. Processors 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Facilitec West 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PWM - Portland 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sigma - Cream Ridge 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volunteer Fire Department/Volunteer Ambulance 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pardee Homes 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manor Home 88 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, 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.