Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing · Kansas

HCS - Operations

Valley Center, KS · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HCS - Operations runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HCS - Operations: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HCS - Operations safety composite

HCS - Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

HCS - Operations: 0.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2018

HCS - Operations's TCR rose 11.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333517 · Valley Center, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Bardons & Oliver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bardons & Oliver (0.0 TCR gap)

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HCS - Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HCS - Operations averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HCS - Operations TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=11 · BLS 3.3

Where HCS - Operations falls in its industry

391 Machine tools, metal cutting, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Machine tools, metal cutting, employers in Kansas.

HCS - Operations (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HCS - Operations
HCS - Operations (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.4

HCS - Operations has fewer employees than the Machine tools, metal cutting, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 11.0 2.7 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333517 · KS · Valley Center

391 Machine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 10 employers in Valley Center, 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 Bardons & Oliver 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DRILL MASTERS ELDORADO TOOL 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deburring House Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dowding Industries, Inc 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Choice Feeders LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garden City Transmission 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emporia Service Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rau Construction Company 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Plastics Color, Inc 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Center KS Truss 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hope Valley Center 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wichita KS Yard 37 FTE
NAT-TCR TDNIC - Nicholasville 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ANWIL - Wilmington- NC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0663 - Surprise, Az 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chattanooga (Tncha) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Covington 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elderberry Square Community 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vero Beach Office 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Oklahoma Thunder 34 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: 2018, 2017. 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.