Processed meats manufacturing · Kansas

Junction City Packaging

Junction City, KS · ~475 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Junction City Packaging runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Junction City Packaging: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Junction City Packaging safety composite

Junction City Packaging scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2022→2024

Junction City Packaging injury rate improved

Junction City Packaging's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.1 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Junction City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Hormel Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~475 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hormel Foods Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Junction City Packaging in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Junction City Packaging averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Junction City Packaging TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Junction City Packaging falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Junction City Packaging (475 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Junction City Packaging
Junction City Packaging (475 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Junction City Packaging has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.6 1.7 15 0 0
2023 2.9 1.8 16 0 0
2022 3.1 1.3 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · KS · Junction City

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 29 employers in Junction 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 Hormel Foods Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Group, LLC Rose Packing 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dole and Bailey 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HollyFrontier El Dorado Refining LLC 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE Textron Aviation - IMF 475 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Plains Manufacturing Inc SA1 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE CNH_Wichita 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foot Locker JCSC 766 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foot Locker Corporate Services Inc. 746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geary Community Hospital - Main Facility 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Mancor-IN, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Citywide Mobile Response Corp 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hsl 17, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CalmaxTechnology01 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Community Services 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE WR Grace & Co 475 FTE
NAT-SIZE B82 - Inco 475 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.