Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Kansas

Kansas Smith Farms

Plains, KS · ~135 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kansas Smith Farms runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Kansas Smith Farms: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kansas Smith Farms safety composite

Kansas Smith Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−2.1

2016→2019

Kansas Smith Farms injury rate improved

Kansas Smith Farms's TCR fell 2.1 from 9.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2019=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Plains, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO Mt. Echo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mt. Echo (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kansas employers → · Look up another →

Kansas Smith Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kansas Smith Farms averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Kansas Smith Farms TCR series: 2016=9 · 2019=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Kansas Smith Farms falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Kansas.

Kansas Smith Farms (135 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kansas Smith Farms
Kansas Smith Farms (135 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Kansas Smith Farms has more employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2019 6.9 4.8 9 1 0
2016 9.0 1.4 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · KS · Plains

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Plains, 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 Mt. Echo 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TERRE HAUTE SOW #6 & #2 -EST 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Farms LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fuller Industries LLC 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-America Pipe 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Cylinders Maize 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMI - Fredonia 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR JKL Construction, Inc. 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Plains Ponderosa Dairy, LLC 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plains 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plains/Collano Grain Elevator 17 FTE
NAT-TCR Teasdale Latin Foods (Hoopeston, IL) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 8912 Las Vegas Framing 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ballast Point - Scripps Ranch 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Adobe Creek Orchards 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Luana 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE F. Christiana 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consulate Health Care - Melbourne 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay Wood Products Inc 135 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: 2019, 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.