Ductile iron foundries · Kansas

Kansas Castings Inc

Belle Plaine, KS · ~39 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kansas Castings Inc runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ductile iron foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

Kansas Castings Inc: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Ductile iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas Castings Inc safety composite

Kansas Castings Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2016→2024

Kansas Castings Inc injury rate improved

Kansas Castings Inc's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=7.7 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Belle Plaine, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Austin Gray Iron Fou…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Gray Iron Foundry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kansas Castings Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas Castings Inc averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Ductile iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas Castings Inc TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.7 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kansas Castings Inc falls in its industry

272 Ductile iron foundries establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 4 Ductile iron foundries employers in Kansas.

Kansas Castings Inc (39 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas Castings Inc
Kansas Castings Inc (39 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Kansas Castings Inc has fewer employees than the Ductile iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.9 6.7 4 0 0
2019 7.7 5.1 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · KS · Belle Plaine

272 Ductile iron foundries 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 Austin Gray Iron Foundry 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Appleton Grp. LLC. - South Milwaukee Foundry 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gunite Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clow Valve Company - Metal Casting Facility 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1550 W Road 70 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beefland Feed Yard 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrence Service Center 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 39 FTE
NAT-TCR DC 28 - Romeoville 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Henderson's IGA 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Zelham, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - CDW5 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Ed 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alto Magic Valley 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vigor Fab LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tetra Mold & Tool Inc. 39 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.