Food containers, sanitary (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard · Kansas

Huhtamaki De Soto

Desoto, KS · ~398 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Huhtamaki De Soto runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food containers, sanitary (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Huhtamaki De Soto: 0.6 TCR = 19% of Food containers, sanitary (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Huhtamaki De Soto safety composite

Huhtamaki De Soto scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Huhtamaki De Soto's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.4 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P96
  • PHOTO Huhtamaki Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~398 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huhtamaki Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Huhtamaki De Soto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Huhtamaki De Soto averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the Food containers, sanitary (except folding), made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Huhtamaki De Soto TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Huhtamaki De Soto falls in its industry

140 Food containers, sanitary (exc establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Huhtamaki De Soto (398 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Huhtamaki De Soto
Huhtamaki De Soto (398 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Food containers, sanitary (except foldin 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
2024 1.3 0.4 3 0 0
2023 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.4 0.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322219 · KS · Desoto

140 Food containers, sanitary (except folding), 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 Desoto, 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 Huhtamaki Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caraustar Salt Lake City Tube Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Box Form Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tetra Pak Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florence Corporation 398 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6I US Foods Kansas City/Topeka 399 FTE
STATE-SIZE 577 399 FTE
STATE-SIZE S09356 - KS KANSAS CITY HAULING 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Engineered Air 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeSoto, KS Facility 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehrig Pacific Company Kansas 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant 38 FTE
NAT-TCR GNB Fort Smith LLC - Stryten Energy 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LNH-Sabre 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FSG-CA 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hurst Construction and Fabrication, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Sacramento 398 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania 398 FTE
NAT-SIZE Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo, Inc. 398 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dezurik 398 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. 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.