Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum · Kansas

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City

Kansas City, KS · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade D.

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City: 5.2 TCR = 156% of Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City safety composite

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City: 2.6 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2020

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City's TCR rose 5.4 from 2.6 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324191 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 156% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO BG Products El Dorad…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BG Products El Dorado Manufacturing Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City averages 5.2 TCR (156% of the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City falls in its industry

171 Lubricating oils and greases, establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Lubricating oils and greases, employers in Kansas.

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City
Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Fuchs Lubricants Co., Kansas City has more employees than the Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 8.1 6.0 4 0 0
2019 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 3 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324191 · KS · Kansas City

171 Lubricating oils and greases, petroleum, made from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas City, 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 BG Products El Dorado Manufacturing Facility 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren Performance Packaging 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Facility 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Plains Ponderosa Dairy, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita System Control Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Renovation and Restoration, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PureField Ingredients, Food Ingredients 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Schneiderman's Furniture - Lakeville 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Our Wood Loft 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowan Office 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Newtex Industries, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Graphite Chicago Complex 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE DZ Concrete 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pestech Exterminating 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE UVA Medical Center Lynchburg 58 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.