Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Nebraska

L & S Industries Inc

Kearney, NE · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L & S Industries Inc runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

L & S Industries Inc: 7.8 TCR = 235% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L & S Industries Inc safety composite

L & S Industries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

L & S Industries Inc: 7.8 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

L & S Industries Inc's TCR rose 7.6 from 7.8 in 2017 to 15.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Kearney, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 235% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Franke Foodservice S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franke Foodservice Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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L & S Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L & S Industries Inc averages 7.8 TCR (235% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

L & S Industries Inc TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2023=15.4 · BLS 3.3

Where L & S Industries Inc falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Nebraska.

L & S Industries Inc (26 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate L & S Industries Inc
L & S Industries Inc (26 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

L & S Industries Inc has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 15.4 0.0 1 2 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.8 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NE · Kearney

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 100 employers in Kearney, NE · 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 Franke Foodservice Solutions 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M SDL 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Falcon Manufacturing 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniDuct NorCal 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Timber Ridge 12347 445th Street Leigh NE 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE PFF 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farners Pride - Battle Creek Location 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Kearney 1,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney Facility 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-26100001-261001 791 FTE
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Bradenton Cove 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bondhus Corporation 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Four Rivers Sanitation Authority 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Geisinger Community Medical Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sonoma Landfill 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE So. Cal. Beach Club 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kings Highway 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 26 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, 2020, 2017. 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.