Water Well Drilling · Kansas

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City

Garden City, KS · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water Well Drilling workplace, earning a grade F.

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City: 5.9 TCR = 210% of Water Well Drilling BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City safety composite

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.7

2016→2018

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City injury rate improved

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City's TCR fell 3.7 from 6.8 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 210% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO ProPump and Controls…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ProPump and Controls Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City averages 5.9 TCR (210% of the Water Well Drilling BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City falls in its industry

1,614 Water Well Drilling establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #13 safest of 14 Water Well Drilling employers in Kansas.

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City (66 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City
Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City (66 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City has more employees than the Water Well Drilling median and a higher 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
2018 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2017 7.7 5.5 7 0 0
2016 6.8 6.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · KS · Garden City

1,614 Water Well Drilling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, 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 ProPump and Controls Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Plumbing Temporary Work Sites 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith & Brown Contractors Inc 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manhattan Service Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHS Construction, INC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sporer Land Development, Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prestressed Concrete Construction 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR 734 - Deer Park 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville (HR) 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2333 - Athens 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Masda Mushroom LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #106 (Billings, MT) 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #29 (Madison, WI (West)) 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 30367 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rivers Edge Nursing and Rehabilitation 66 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: 2018, 2017, 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.