Gunpowder manufacturing · Kansas

Herington Facility

Herington, KS · ~45 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herington Facility runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gunpowder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Herington Facility: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Gunpowder manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herington Facility safety composite

Herington Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.3

2016→2024

Herington Facility injury rate improved

Herington Facility's TCR fell 2.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Herington, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P54
  • PHOTO St. Marks Powder Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Marks Powder Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herington Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herington Facility averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Gunpowder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Herington Facility TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=5 · 2020=2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Herington Facility falls in its industry

78 Gunpowder manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Herington Facility (45 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Herington Facility
Herington Facility (45 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Herington Facility has fewer employees than the Gunpowder manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · KS · Herington

78 Gunpowder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Herington, 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 St. Marks Powder Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxam Energetic, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Virginia Plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shawnee Service Center 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wardcraft Homes Inc., 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roofmasters Roofing & Sheet Metal- Hays 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Roofing Dodge City 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Stone Industries 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herington Hospital, Inc 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herington Municipal Hospital 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barnes Heartland Foods 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Hallmark Center Fixture Operations 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Carrollton 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 174 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Truck Sales - Mobile 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ICC Oxnard 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE POET Biorefining - Portland 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverland Energy Cooperative 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 45 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.