Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing · Kansas

Great Bend Industries

Great Bend, Kansas, KS · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Bend Industries runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Bend Industries: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Bend Industries safety composite

Great Bend Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Great Bend Industries: 4.3 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Great Bend Industries's TCR rose 7.3 from 4.3 in 2023 to 11.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333995 · Great Bend, Kansas, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Sheldon Facility
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheldon Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Bend Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Bend Industries averages 8.0 TCR (242% of the Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Bend Industries TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Bend Industries falls in its industry

137 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid pow establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid pow employers in Kansas.

Great Bend Industries (66 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Bend Industries
Great Bend Industries (66 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Great Bend Industries has fewer employees than the Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 11.6 3.3 7 0 0
2023 4.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333995 · KS · Great Bend, Kansas

137 Hydraulic cylinders, fluid power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Sheldon Facility 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Metal Products 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hader Industries, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borghi USA 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manhattan Service Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHS Construction, INC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sporer Land Development, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Cawtd - Carmel Village 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Mandeville 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Athena Farms 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LB Transport, Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Campany Roof Maintenance Roofing Division LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helia Healthcare of Olney 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE NexCare Health Systems 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mirls - Romulus 66 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. 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.