Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing · Kansas

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth

Ellsworth, KS · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth: 2.8 TCR = 83% of Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth safety composite

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2023→2024

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth injury rate improved

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth's TCR fell 3.7 from 4.6 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.6 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Ellsworth, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #14/37
  • PHOTO Rainbow Manufacturin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rainbow Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth averages 2.8 TCR (83% of the Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth falls in its industry

433 Seeders, farm-type, manufactur establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 37 Seeders, farm-type, manufactur employers in Kansas.

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth (129 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth
Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth (129 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth has more employees than the Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 4.6 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · KS · Ellsworth

433 Seeders, farm-type, manufacturing 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 Rainbow Manufacturing Company 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelderman Manufacturing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wetherell Mfg Co, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunke Manufacturing LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill's Pet Nutrition 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barkman Honey 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jayhawk Fine Chemicals 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Bond Building Medicine Lodge 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth County Medical Center 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cashco Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Ellsworth Village - Prairie West Assisted Living 62 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Albany 737 Albany Intl 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Winnebago Landfill 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens Products, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AME Community Services Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Griffin Beverage CO West Branch 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westpark Rehabilitation and Living 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonterra Health Center 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wholesum Farms Arizona 129 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.