Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Kansas

Hays Ks

Hays, KS · ~35 workers · 9 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

Hays Ks runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Hays Ks: 3.6 TCR = 165% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hays Ks safety composite

Hays Ks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Hays Ks: 6.2 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.29× in 2024

Hays Ks's TCR rose 4.2 from 6.2 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Hays, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Phoenix, AZ
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix, AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hays Ks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hays Ks averages 3.6 TCR (165% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hays Ks TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Hays Ks falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 13 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Kansas.

Hays Ks (35 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hays Ks
Hays Ks (35 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Hays Ks has fewer employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch 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
2024 10.4 8.3 5 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2017 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2016 6.2 6.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · KS · Hays

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hays, 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 Phoenix, AZ 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI - Racine - 3131 Phillips Ave - The American Bottling Company 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling of Winona 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OK - Oklahoma City - 5200 SW 36th St Ste 600 - The American Bottling Company 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Pioneer Electric Company Liberal District 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hays Medical Center 1,343 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 664 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 664 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR EnerSys Hays 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldman Equipment, LLC - Mer Rouge 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pend Oreille Surgery Center, llc 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE BF 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterproofing 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwalk Store 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Store 35 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, 2018, 2017, 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.