Picker machinery for textiles manufacturing · Kansas

HIX Corporation

Pittsburg, KS · ~64 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HIX Corporation runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Picker machinery for textiles manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

HIX Corporation: 2.6 TCR = 78% of Picker machinery for textiles manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HIX Corporation safety composite

HIX Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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)
C 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2017→2024

HIX Corporation injury rate improved

HIX Corporation's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.4 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.4 · 2020=5.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Pittsburg, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Afton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Afton (0.0 TCR gap)

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HIX Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HIX Corporation averages 2.6 TCR (78% of the Picker machinery for textiles manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HIX Corporation TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2020=5.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where HIX Corporation falls in its industry

448 Picker machinery for textiles establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Picker machinery for textiles employers in Kansas.

HIX Corporation (64 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate HIX Corporation
HIX Corporation (64 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

HIX Corporation has fewer employees than the Picker machinery for textiles manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.5 1.8 3 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · KS · Pittsburg

448 Picker machinery for textiles manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 70 employers in Pittsburg, 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 Afton 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BACA Systems 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPX FLOW US, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckeye Machine Fabricators, Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE OP KGS DIV GO 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Excel Constructors, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunflower Wind Project 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettis Contractors, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas 1,083 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATC Support Services 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC001 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR 72 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Plastic Omnium Auto Exteriors, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bauerschmidt & Sons, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Castle Paving, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TAYLORVILLE 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midas Trucking 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Children's Hopsital Colorado Therapy Care,Broomfield 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Energy Savers of Georgia and Alabama,LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Equipment Corporation 64 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, 2020, 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.