Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers · Kansas

Hiland Dairy - Topeka

Topeka, KS · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hiland Dairy - Topeka runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Hiland Dairy - Topeka: 1.9 TCR = 89% of Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hiland Dairy - Topeka safety composite

Hiland Dairy - Topeka scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2016→2019

Hiland Dairy - Topeka injury rate improved

Hiland Dairy - Topeka's TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Topeka, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P86
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - DALLAS TX-3114 HASKELL AVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hiland Dairy - Topeka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hiland Dairy - Topeka averages 1.9 TCR (89% of the Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hiland Dairy - Topeka TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Hiland Dairy - Topeka falls in its industry

231 Dairy products (except canned, establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hiland Dairy - Topeka (19 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hiland Dairy - Topeka
Hiland Dairy - Topeka (19 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Hiland Dairy - Topeka has fewer employees than the Dairy products (except canned, dried) me median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · KS · Topeka

231 Dairy products (except canned, dried) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - DALLAS TX-3114 HASKELL AVE 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonna Brothers, Inc. 6 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - WINSTON-SALEM NC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ft. Worth Facility 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ottawa Service Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caney Valley Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LLK LLC dba L & L Construction 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita Home Works LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 137 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mobile, Alabama Sawmill 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PuraCap Caribe 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 8791 Socal Dist-Truss 1.9 TCR

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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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