Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks · Missouri

Ground Effects Kansas City

Kansas City, MO · ~133 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ground Effects Kansas City runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks workplace, earning a grade F.

Ground Effects Kansas City: 4.7 TCR = 224% of Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ground Effects Kansas City safety composite

Ground Effects Kansas City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Ground Effects Kansas City: 3.2 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2020

Ground Effects Kansas City's TCR rose 3.3 from 3.2 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811198 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 224% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Ground Effects, LLC …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ground Effects, LLC - Louisville (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ground Effects Kansas City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ground Effects Kansas City averages 4.7 TCR (224% of the Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks BLS benchmark).

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

Ground Effects Kansas City TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Ground Effects Kansas City falls in its industry

66 Spray-on bedliner installation establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Spray-on bedliner installation employers in Missouri.

Ground Effects Kansas City (133 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 Ground Effects Kansas City
Ground Effects Kansas City (133 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Ground Effects Kansas City has more employees than the Spray-on bedliner installation for truck median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 6.5 6.5 8 0 0
2019 4.4 2.2 4 2 0
2018 4.8 2.8 7 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811198 · MO · Kansas City

66 Spray-on bedliner installation for trucks 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 Ground Effects, LLC - Louisville 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ground Effects, LLC - Fort Wayne Facility 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fullerton FSR Center 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opus Inspection Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Merrill Steel 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heitkamp Masonry, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cosmos Corporation 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royal Gate Dodge, Inc. 133 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 Attleboro Retirement Village 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Women's Treatment Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Ashland 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 165 San Antonio, Tx 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE DDSI South Gate 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Hospice 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utility Lines Construction Services - 110 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Quality Packaging 133 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, 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.