Grocery stores · Kansas

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710

Ellsworth, KS · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710: 7.0 TCR = 205% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 safety composite

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710: 8.4 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710's TCR rose 1.1 from 8.4 in 2019 to 9.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ellsworth, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 205% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #141/159
  • PHOTO ROCHE BROS - DUXBURY
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ROCHE BROS - DUXBURY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 averages 7.0 TCR (205% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #141 safest of 159 Grocery stores employers in Kansas.

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 (31 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gene'S Heartland Foods 710
Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 (31 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 9.5 9.5 2 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KS · Ellsworth

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ellsworth, 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 ROCHE BROS - DUXBURY 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-485 STORE 485 - PASADENA 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0030-0030-00020 FAC-00020-MISSOULA-MT 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branford 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lariat Feeders, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton County Feeders 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1509 W MAPLE INDEPENDENCE KS 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Construction, Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth County Medical Center 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cashco Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Liberty Mayaguez 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Packaging 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Iron Horse Brewery 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All-Color Powder Coating 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shasta County Office of Education 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electri-Tech Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE BJ Electric Supply Janesville 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery Outlet of West Redding 31 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. 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.