Healthcare Laundry Specialists · Kansas

Kansas City Specialty

Kansas City, KS · ~75 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kansas City Specialty runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Healthcare Laundry Specialists workplace, earning a grade F.

Kansas City Specialty: 7.8 TCR = 370% of Healthcare Laundry Specialists BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas City Specialty safety composite

Kansas City Specialty scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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 Specialty: 2.3 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Kansas City Specialty's TCR rose 6.8 from 2.3 in 2019 to 9.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 370% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Unitex Linden
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unitex Linden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kansas City Specialty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas City Specialty averages 7.8 TCR (370% of the Healthcare Laundry Specialists BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas City Specialty TCR series: 2019=2.3 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=9.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Kansas City Specialty falls in its industry

334 Healthcare Laundry Specialists establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 6 Healthcare Laundry Specialists employers in Kansas.

Kansas City Specialty (75 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0100200300400 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas City Specialty
Kansas City Specialty (75 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Kansas City Specialty has fewer employees than the Healthcare Laundry Specialists median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 9.2 5.7 8 0 0
2022 8.5 7.3 7 0 0
2021 11.1 10.0 10 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · KS · Kansas City

334 Healthcare Laundry Specialists employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas 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 Unitex Linden 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Linen Supply Visalia 3200 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maurer's Textile Rental Services 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Hartford 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haren & Laughlin Construction Co., Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Lenexa 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&H Insulation Sales and Services, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Industries, LLC - Kansas City 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Austin Hilton Garden Inn 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4274 RIALTO, CA 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Chicago 111 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Serv-All 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CA-Livermore-Stealth Street 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Rosewood Retirement Community (SNF) 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Recycling Technologies, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchard Point at Surprise 75 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, 2019. 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.