Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Kansas

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc.

Ford, KS · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade B.

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 61% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. safety composite

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc.: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Ford, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/50
  • PHOTO Satanta Farms North #1
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Satanta Farms North #1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (61% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 50 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Kansas.

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ford County Feed Yard, Inc.
Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Ford County Feed Yard, Inc. has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2022 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2020 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2017 6.1 4.6 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Ford

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Satanta Farms North #1 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cactus Feedyard 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffalo Feeders, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McElhaney Feedyard 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ford County Feeders LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Cattle Feeders North #2 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Service Center 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Pratt (Converting Division Texas), LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Pavement Systems Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerelcom, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation West San Antonio 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transportation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.R. LeDuc Corporation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prestwick Construction 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hankinson Renewable Energy, LLC 50 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.