Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Kansas

Frontenc

Frontenac, KS · ~659 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frontenc runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Frontenc: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frontenc safety composite

Frontenc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−1.2

2022→2024

Frontenc injury rate improved

Frontenc's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.7 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.7 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Frontenac, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Smithfield Foods Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~659 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Foods Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frontenc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frontenc averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Frontenc TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Frontenc falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 15 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Kansas.

Frontenc (659 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Frontenc
Frontenc (659 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Frontenc has more employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 1.6 1.4 10 0 0
2023 2.7 2.2 20 0 0
2022 2.7 2.1 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · KS · Frontenac

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Frontenac, 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 Smithfield Foods Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boars Head Holland 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hormel Foods - Austin Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan's Prize Browerville 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Labette Health 661 FTE
STATE-SIZE Services : Strother, KS 663 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Office 665 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rubbermaid Consumer Products 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontenac, KS 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diamond Pet Foods - Frontenac 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac 192 FTE
NAT-TCR RLG - Taylor Made 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Derrick Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elk Mills 1 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield Plumbing Products- Ashland 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Plus Services 659 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Airways, LLC 659 FTE
NAT-SIZE Myerstown, PA 659 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blountsville Plant 659 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. 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.