Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), manufacturing · Kansas

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P.

Lenexa, KS · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P.: 5.9 TCR = 180% of Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. safety composite

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P.: 4.8 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 4.8 in 2022 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Lenexa, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 180% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO Mike Alexander Dies,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mike Alexander Dies, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. averages 5.9 TCR (180% of the Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. falls in its industry

174 Dies, steel rule (except metal establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. (104 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kocher+Beck USA, L.P.
Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. (104 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Kocher+Beck USA, L.P. has more employees than the Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), 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 5.5 1.4 4 0 0
2023 7.6 3.3 7 0 0
2022 4.8 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · KS · Lenexa

174 Dies, steel rule (except metal cutting), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Lenexa, 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 Mike Alexander Dies, Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jeffrey Machine 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOGADORE/ALBION PLANT 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Tool & Gauge 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heartland Traffic Services 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAM 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altium Packaging - Lenexa 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Dorado KS 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR RailCrew Xpress 3,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR LENEXA (KSLEN) 2,266 FTE
CITY-NEAR KSLEN - LENEXA 2,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kiewit Corporation_9401 Renner Boulevard 1,653 FTE
NAT-TCR Loen Nursery, Inc. - Woodburn 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gardens at Camp Hill 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Appleton Central 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Texhoma Christian Care Center, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Douron, Inc 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPP - Rockwood 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegiant Air ATW 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE BV Operations, LLC dba Bradford Village Healthcare Center 104 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, 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.