Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing · Nebraska

KZ Valve, LLC

Greenwood, NE · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KZ Valve, LLC runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

KZ Valve, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KZ Valve, LLC safety composite

KZ Valve, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

KZ Valve, LLC: 1.1 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

KZ Valve, LLC's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.1 in 2022 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Greenwood, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #5/24
  • PHOTO HD Hudson Manufactur…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HD Hudson Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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KZ Valve, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KZ Valve, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KZ Valve, LLC TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where KZ Valve, LLC falls in its industry

433 Sprayers and dusters, farm-typ establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 24 Sprayers and dusters, farm-typ employers in Nebraska.

KZ Valve, LLC (114 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KZ Valve, LLC
KZ Valve, LLC (114 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

KZ Valve, LLC has more employees than the Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufac median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.0 2.0 4 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 4 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · NE · Greenwood

433 Sprayers and dusters, farm-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 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 HD Hudson Manufacturing 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterloo Works Drive Train Operations 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wetherell Mfg Co, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunke Manufacturing LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platte River Concrete Co. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00318 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE 305165-LINCOLN P&DF 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE 61830005 SHARED SERVICE SYSTEMS 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR KZCO 80 FTE
NAT-TCR 0415-Chillicothe 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynisco Instruments 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 320 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cosmo Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spring Valley Living 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automated Logic Controls (New England) 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6272 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 2741 114 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.