Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard · Kansas

Huhtamaki De Soto

Name: Huhtamaki De Soto Workplace Safety Data
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De Soto, KS · ~470 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Huhtamaki De Soto runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Huhtamaki De Soto: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Huhtamaki De Soto safety composite

Huhtamaki De Soto scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Huhtamaki De Soto: 0.4 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Huhtamaki De Soto's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322219 · De Soto, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P94
PHOTO Tetra Pak Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~470 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tetra Pak Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carrollton - D

0.8
This site

0.7
Tetra Pak Inc.

0.7
Huhtamaki Inc.

0.7
Caraustar Salt

0.7

What this shows Huhtamaki De Soto averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

Huhtamaki De Soto TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2019=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Huhtamaki De Soto falls in its industry

140 Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plat establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Huhtamaki De Soto (470 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Huhtamaki De Soto has more employees than the Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made f median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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	1.0	0.0	2	3	0
2016	0.4	0.0	1	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · KS · De Soto

140 Paper dishes (e.g., cups, plates) made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in De Soto, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Tetra Pak Inc.	DENTON, TX	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Huhtamaki Inc.	BATAVIA, OH	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Caraustar Salt Lake City Tube Plant	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Carrollton - D004	CARROLLTON, TX	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Starkey Inc.	WICHITA	469 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RESER'S - TOPEKA CROSSROADS	TOPEKA	466 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CNH_Wichita	WICHITA	474 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BE Aerospace, Inc (Lenexa KS)	LENEXA	474 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CUPERTINO ELECTRIC, INC. - KANSAS OPERATIONS	De Soto	169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Custom Foods, Inc.	De Soto	112 FTE
CITY-NEAR	De Soto	De Soto	109 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Project Kansas	De Soto	103 FTE
NAT-TCR	Minnesota Department of Health - Golden Rule	St Paul, MN	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	GLOENCO South Carolina	Greenville, SC	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Adrian Steel of Maryland, Inc.	Baltimore, MD	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	NGTS-Q550	Scott Afb, IL	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	102900 - Lackawanna Energy Center	Jessup, PA	470 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TX - Verizon FGO/Bldg 16	Fort Worth, TX	470 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Executive Mailing Services	Palos Hills, IL	470 FTE
NAT-SIZE	099 ABC Supply Co., Inc	Beloit, WI	470 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: 2019, 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.