Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Kansas

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy

Great Bend, KS · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy: 3.6 TCR = 166% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy safety composite

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 7.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Great Bend, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #21/41
  • PHOTO Verdegaal Brothers, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verdegaal Brothers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy averages 3.6 TCR (166% 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

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #21 safest of 41 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Kansas.

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy (36 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy
Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy (36 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Great Bend Cooperative Association Agronomy has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher 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
2021 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · KS · Great Bend

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 40 employers in Great Bend, 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 Verdegaal Brothers, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Sterling 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldon C. Stutsman 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 31793 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ingalls Feed Yard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feedyard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBI & Home Farm 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrence 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jomax Construction Co., Inc. 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 770 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR 770 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunflower Diversified Services, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Hendricks Power Headquarters 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rousselot Peabody Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackhawk Corrugated Carol Stream Il 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 90007870 General Dynamics 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE MLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Road Atlanta 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meals on Wheels by ACC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging Center 36 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: 2021, 2020. 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.