Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Kansas

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal

Liberal, KS · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal safety composite

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Liberal, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Highland Tank & Manu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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KBK Industries, LLC Liberal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KBK Industries, LLC Liberal averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where KBK Industries, LLC Liberal falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Kansas.

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal (49 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KBK Industries, LLC Liberal
KBK Industries, LLC Liberal (49 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

KBK Industries, LLC Liberal has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 7.7 6.5 6 0 0
2022 9.0 4.5 3 3 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · KS · Liberal

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 34 employers in Liberal, 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 Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPVG Tomahawk 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Water Tank 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Tank and Fabricating Corporation 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur County Beef, LLC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE ULYSSES FEED YARD 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deseret Cattle Feeders 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohlde Dairy 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Beef Packing Company 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCI - LIBERAL 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 799 313 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SDC1 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - AZA5 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HWA2 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR STL 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Specialty Company Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Beaver Dam 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HLA1 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benedictine Living Community of Northfield 49 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.