Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Kansas

Garden City, KS

Garden City, KS · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden City, KS runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Garden City, KS: 3.2 TCR = 144% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden City, KS safety composite

Garden City, KS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Garden City, KS: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Garden City, KS's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #18/41
  • PHOTO Pocahontas (Route 140)
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pocahontas (Route 140) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden City, KS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden City, KS averages 3.2 TCR (144% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Garden City, KS TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Garden City, KS falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 41 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Kansas.

Garden City, KS (45 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Garden City, KS
Garden City, KS (45 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Garden City, KS has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2023 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · KS · Garden City

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden 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 Pocahontas (Route 140) 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDMORE, MI 728 5TH ROAD 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stewardson 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centerra Co-op, Volant 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shawnee Service Center 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wardcraft Homes Inc., 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roofmasters Roofing & Sheet Metal- Hays 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Roofing Dodge City 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Stark Truss Co., Inc. Statesville, North Carolina 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Brands of North Platte 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Electric, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Headquarters 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2408-Hyatt Place Nashville 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Masonry, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE FNG-Ft Myers Office 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inver Grove Hyundai 45 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, 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.