Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing · Kansas

Koch Fertilizer, LLC

Dodge City, KS · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Fertilizer, LLC runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Koch Fertilizer, LLC: 1.2 TCR = 36% of Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Fertilizer, LLC safety composite

Koch Fertilizer, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Koch Fertilizer, LLC: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

Koch Fertilizer, LLC's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Dodge City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 36% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Dyno Nobel Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dyno Nobel Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Fertilizer, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Fertilizer, LLC averages 1.2 TCR (36% of the Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Fertilizer, LLC TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Fertilizer, LLC falls in its industry

85 Nitrogenous fertilizer materia establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Nitrogenous fertilizer materia employers in Kansas.

Koch Fertilizer, LLC (73 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Koch Fertilizer, LLC
Koch Fertilizer, LLC (73 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Koch Fertilizer, LLC has more employees than the Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · KS · Dodge City

85 Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 59 employers in Dodge 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 Dyno Nobel Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennewick Fertilizer Operations 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Valley Chemical Corp 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Fertilizer Ft. Dodge 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Victory Electric Cooperative Assn., Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE API KS MFG 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICI MANUFACTURING 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR NATIONAL BEEF OF DODGE CITY 3,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Protein Dodge City 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Beef - Dodge City KS 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR 372 346 FTE
NAT-TCR NY - Williamson - 4363 Route 104 - Mott's LLP 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The SEES Group 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heidelberg Distributing Company Youngstown 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TXP 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Thin Films 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Rivet & Mfg. Company 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Oaks Convalescent Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of Ocala 73 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. 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.