Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing · Kansas

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute

Chanute, KS · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute safety composite

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−1.4

2018→2024

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute injury rate improved

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.8 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334511 · Chanute, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Ashaway Office
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ashaway Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute falls in its industry

388 Air traffic control radar syst establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Air traffic control radar syst employers in Kansas.

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute (43 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute
Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute (43 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Kustom Signals, Inc. - Chanute has fewer employees than the Air traffic control radar systems and eq median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2021 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334511 · KS · Chanute

388 Air traffic control radar systems and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Chanute, 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 Ashaway Office 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrett Metal Detectors 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Senior Aerospace Connecticut 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Warner Robins Campus (1400) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Linwood 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lost Trail Dairy, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newkirk Novak Construction Partners, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKINDINC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orizon Chanute Assembly 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 111 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hi Lo Industries 228 FTE
NAT-TCR 153 Long Grove Fire Protection District 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MALDEN-MA63 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Melrose Park 10453 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Commercial Services (Salt Lake) 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE RLCC Elementary 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE RLCC High School 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terra Tec Landscapes Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermeer - Commerce City 43 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, 2018. 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.