Employer · Kansas

Hiawatha Feed Plant

Hiawatha, KS · ~98 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hiawatha Feed Plant runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Hiawatha Feed Plant: 0.7 TCR = 18% of industry BLS 3.9 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hiawatha Feed Plant safety composite

Hiawatha Feed Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

Hiawatha Feed Plant: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hiawatha Feed Plant's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hiawatha, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/23
  • PHOTO Purina
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Purina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hiawatha Feed Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hiawatha Feed Plant averages 0.7 TCR (18% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Hiawatha Feed Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Hiawatha Feed Plant falls in its industry

302 industry establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 23 industry employers in Kansas.

Hiawatha Feed Plant (98 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hiawatha Feed Plant
Hiawatha Feed Plant (98 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hiawatha Feed Plant has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Hiawatha

302 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Hiawatha, 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 Purina 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Clinton IA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alltech 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TFH Publications Inc. - Neptune City 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE PK Industrial, LLC 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE KBK Industries, LLC Rush Center 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haven Steel Products 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henke Manufacturing Corporation 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hiawatha Community Hospital 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 342 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR 342 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hiawatha Cabinets 145 FTE
NAT-TCR SamsungSDI B1 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dee Electronics 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets Dallas 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tidewater Elkridge, MD 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Orleans Shipyard 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ames Rubber Corporation-Hamburg 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Top Priority Cargo Inc 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schulz Transportation Services, Inc 98 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. 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.