Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing · Kansas

KDI Operating Company

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Hugoton, KS · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

KDI Operating Company runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

KDI Operating Company: 8.2 TCR = 250% of Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KDI Operating Company safety composite

KDI Operating Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

KDI Operating Company held a steady TCR band

KDI Operating Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.1 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Hugoton, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 250% of ind

DART 2.7 DART
RANK #4/5
PHOTO Hiland Springfield MO
BOOK 5y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hiland Springfield MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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8.3
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8.3
Prairie Farms

8.3
This site

8.2
SUIZA DAIRY RI

8.2

What this shows KDI Operating Company averages 8.2 TCR (250% of the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

KDI Operating Company TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where KDI Operating Company falls in its industry

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), m establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

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 5 Milk, fluid (except canned), m employers in Kansas.

KDI Operating Company (59 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

KDI Operating Company has fewer employees than the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020	5.3	2.7	4	0
2019	16.3	16.3	8	0
2018	8.6	6.1	7	0
2017	5.9	3.4	6	1
2016	5.1	3.4	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · KS · Hugoton

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hugoton, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hiland Springfield MO	SPRINGFIELD, MO	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SUIZA DAIRY RIO PIEDRAS	SAN JUAN, PR	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crescent Ridge	SHARON, MA	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Prairie Farms Dairy Inc., Anderson	ANDERSON, IN	8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Southland Service Center	STILLWELL	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smoky Hill Construction	SALINA	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Young's Welding, Inc.	CHANUTE	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amarr Entrematic Shawnee	SHAWNEE	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC	Hugoton	73 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Natural Gas Compressor Manufacture	Hugoton	70 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Great Plains Gas Compression Holdings, LLC	Hugoton	58 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HUGOTON FM & DELIVERY	Hugoton	38 FTE
NAT-TCR	175 Palmdale West	Palmdale, CA	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	500 Brush Ave	Bronx, NY	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Android Industries- Greenville	Piedmont, SC	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Avamere St. Helens	St. Helens, OR	8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	New Market - Store 777	North Manchester, IN	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dianal America, Inc.	Pasadena, TX	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Xl Fire Protection - Ca	Santa Ana, CA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Golden Corral 584	Greeley, CO	59 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.