Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing · Kansas

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals

Galena, KS · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals safety composite

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals: 0.8 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2023

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.8 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Galena, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO AGP Algona Methyl Es…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGP Algona Methyl Ester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jayhawk Fine Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jayhawk Fine Chemicals averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2023=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Jayhawk Fine Chemicals falls in its industry

552 Organo-inorganic compound manu establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Organo-inorganic compound manu employers in Kansas.

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals (129 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Jayhawk Fine Chemicals
Jayhawk Fine Chemicals (129 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Jayhawk Fine Chemicals has more employees than the Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 3.0 1.5 4 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · KS · Galena

552 Organo-inorganic compound manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Galena, 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 AGP Algona Methyl Ester 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dover Chemical Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beatrice Renewables Plant 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALTIVIA Specialty Chemicals, LLC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill's Pet Nutrition 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barkman Honey 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Bond Building Medicine Lodge 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atikinsion 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evonik jayhawk fine chemicals corp. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Republic Services of Galena 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4393 Galena 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galena Nursing Center 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Smurfit Kappa Fort Worth 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UCPC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrick Construction Companies, Inc. d/b/a Merrick-Kemper 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Az305 - Target Returns Distribution Facility 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Selma Health and Rehab, LLC 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flare Construction 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applied Thin-Film Products - Fremont 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrison Brothers Building Center LLC 129 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, 2020. 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.