Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing · Missouri

Kansas City CSS

Kansas City, MO · ~273 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kansas City CSS runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kansas City CSS: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas City CSS safety composite

Kansas City CSS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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 City CSS: 0.4 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Kansas City CSS's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.4 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325412 · Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/24
  • PHOTO 12th St
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12th St (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kansas City CSS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas City CSS averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas City CSS TCR series: 2019=0.4 · 2020=0.4 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kansas City CSS falls in its industry

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 24 Pharmaceutical preparations (e employers in Missouri.

Kansas City CSS (273 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas City CSS
Kansas City CSS (273 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 171 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Kansas City CSS has more employees than the Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 1.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.4 0.7 4 0 0
2020 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325412 · MO · Kansas City

855 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 12th St 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niowave 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perrigo : Minnesota (PMN) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cranbury 1 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MOJ 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Refresco-Joplin 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE CNH Reman, LLC 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 801 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR SEH - Chippewa Falls 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Roofing Inc of Nashville 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0797 De Wafelbakkers 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JTL Group Inc. DBA Knife River-Billings 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastman Performance Films-Patriot Centre 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISD 728 Elk River School District Handke 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport News Public Works 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transamerican Auto Parts - Corporate 273 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.