Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Kansas

IBT, Inc.

Merriam, KS · ~374 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IBT, Inc. runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

IBT, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 63% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IBT, Inc. safety composite

IBT, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

IBT, Inc.: 1.1 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2023

IBT, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Merriam, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Lawson Products-Dall…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lawson Products-Dallas DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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IBT, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IBT, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (63% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

IBT, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 2.2

Where IBT, Inc. falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Kansas.

IBT, Inc. (374 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate IBT, Inc.
IBT, Inc. (374 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

IBT, Inc. has more employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 2.2 0.4 5 1 0
2021 0.9 0.9 3 0 0
2016 1.1 0.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · KS · Merriam

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Merriam, 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 Lawson Products-Dallas DC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORS Nasco/ Muskogee 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawson Products-Suwanee DC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memphis, TN 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCS: Overland Park - Sprint Parkway 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commerce Office 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3273 376 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cohen Esrey 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 96920030-103 DS BUS LINES, INC.-MERRIAM 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR IKEA #374 Merriam 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aristocrat Motors 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Broan-NuTone LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ample Electric, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Derstine's Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silgan Containers Antioch 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Christ the King Manor Inc. 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boise-GO #000 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Central College 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Al John Inc 374 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: 2023, 2021, 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.