Wheat flour manufacturing · Missouri

General Mills (Kansas City)

Kansas City, MO · ~139 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Mills (Kansas City) runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wheat flour manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

General Mills (Kansas City): 4.0 TCR = 122% of Wheat flour manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Mills (Kansas City) safety composite

General Mills (Kansas City) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

General Mills (Kansas City): 3.4 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2020

General Mills (Kansas City)'s TCR rose 5.8 from 3.4 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO FMBrown'sSonsInc-flour
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FMBrown'sSonsInc-flour (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Mills (Kansas City) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Mills (Kansas City) averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Wheat flour manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Mills (Kansas City) TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where General Mills (Kansas City) falls in its industry

209 Wheat flour manufacturing establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Wheat flour manufacturing employers in Missouri.

General Mills (Kansas City) (139 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate General Mills (Kansas City)
General Mills (Kansas City) (139 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

General Mills (Kansas City) has more employees than the Wheat flour manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.2 2.5 6 9 0
2019 5.9 2.4 9 1 0
2018 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2016 3.4 2.8 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MO · Kansas City

209 Wheat flour manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 FMBrown'sSonsInc-flour 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Milling Company - Winchester 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azteca Milling, L.P. Evansville Plant 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azteca Milling, L.P. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 85A - Sioux Energy Ctr Gen and Bud 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 80G - Nuclear - Maintenance 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Drywall & Painting 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omnium St. Joseph 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CW Egg Products 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Micro 140 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Apeks LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE War Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Center 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Mother Joseph Manor 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste collection - refuse 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wyoming 3750 Manufacturing Facility 139 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.