Workshops for persons with disabilities · Kansas

Kobler Developmental Center

Hill City, KS · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kobler Developmental Center runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Workshops for persons with disabilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Kobler Developmental Center: 7.1 TCR = 186% of Workshops for persons with disabilities BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kobler Developmental Center safety composite

Kobler Developmental Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2016→2021

Kobler Developmental Center injury rate improved

Kobler Developmental Center's TCR fell 4.9 from 4.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.9 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=26.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Hill City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO ARC Rapides
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARC Rapides (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kobler Developmental Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kobler Developmental Center averages 7.1 TCR (186% of the Workshops for persons with disabilities BLS benchmark).

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

Kobler Developmental Center TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=26.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Kobler Developmental Center falls in its industry

1,455 Workshops for persons with dis establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Workshops for persons with dis employers in Kansas.

Kobler Developmental Center (23 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kobler Developmental Center
Kobler Developmental Center (23 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Kobler Developmental Center has fewer employees than the Workshops for persons with disabilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 26.9 16.1 2 3 0
2019 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2018 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.9 4.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · KS · Hill City

1,455 Workshops for persons with disabilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hill 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 ARC Rapides 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OTC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niles Goodwill Store 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opportunity Enterprises, Inc. 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Corporate 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syracuse Feedyard 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steven Cox Associates 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heinen Brothers Ag - Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Graham County Hospital 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dawson Place 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill City 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbia Steel Casting Co. Inc> 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Weather Shield Grand Rapids 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GUNDERSON 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Timbers of Jasper 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHC- Alhambra PHP 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE HeritageDistilling Flagship 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Tyler East 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rob Stubbins Electrical 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.