Adobe bricks manufacturing · Kansas

Kansas Brick & Tile

Hoisington, KS · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kansas Brick & Tile runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Adobe bricks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kansas Brick & Tile: 7.3 TCR = 221% of Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas Brick & Tile safety composite

Kansas Brick & Tile scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Kansas Brick & Tile: 2.9 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2023

Kansas Brick & Tile's TCR rose 4.6 from 2.9 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Hoisington, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Universal Refractori…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Refractories, Inc Wampum Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kansas Brick & Tile in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas Brick & Tile averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the Adobe bricks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas Brick & Tile TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=14.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kansas Brick & Tile falls in its industry

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #4 safest of 5 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Kansas Brick & Tile (40 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas Brick & Tile
Kansas Brick & Tile (40 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kansas Brick & Tile has fewer employees than the Adobe bricks 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
2023 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2022 10.8 10.8 4 0 0
2021 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 14.3 5.7 5 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · KS · Hoisington

307 Adobe bricks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Universal Refractories, Inc Wampum Campus 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Manufacturing Center 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCPI Inc 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE MANHATTAN SC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6271-2700 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE TUKH Cambridge Tower 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Essex International LP 230 FTE
NAT-TCR JR Butler Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big O Smoke House, Inc 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR master grave service, inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Graphic Equipment Corp 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mills Iron Works, Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE rico foods inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agility MFG Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stell Enterprises, Inc. 40 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 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.