Candy manufacturing · Kansas

Iola

Iola, KS · ~458 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iola runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candy manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Iola: 4.7 TCR = 112% of Candy manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iola safety composite

Iola scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Iola: 5.1 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2022

Iola's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.1 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Iola, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Chocolove - 1180 S 5…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 122 inj
  • SIZE ~458 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chocolove - 1180 S 57th Court (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iola in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iola averages 4.7 TCR (112% of the Candy manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Iola TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 4.2

Where Iola falls in its industry

86 Candy manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Candy manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Iola (458 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iola
Iola (458 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Iola has more employees than the Candy manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 5.5 3.2 22 0 0
2020 4.8 2.9 22 1 0
2019 5.5 4.0 26 0 0
2018 4.5 3.9 20 0 0
2017 3.0 2.3 12 1 0
2016 5.1 4.1 20 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · KS · Iola

86 Candy manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 19 employers in Iola, 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 Chocolove - 1180 S 57th Court 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abdallah Candies Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Snacks Co. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sweet Candy Company 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AWG, Kansas City 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCI - LIBERAL 456 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornejo & Sons, LLC 461 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSWIC017 ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI MANHATTAN 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates Corporation Iola KS 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1187 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1187 179 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #551 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse South Bend IN 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Rite Store 575 West Pratt Street 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly #605 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Jose Manufacturing Facility 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alto-Shaam 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vantage Aging 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koyo Richland Plant 458 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.