Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · Kansas

Liberty Fruit Co.

Kansas City, KS · ~290 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liberty Fruit Co. runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.

Liberty Fruit Co.: 12.6 TCR = 280% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liberty Fruit Co. safety composite

Liberty Fruit Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2016→2023

Liberty Fruit Co. injury rate improved

Liberty Fruit Co.'s TCR fell 4.8 from 19.3 in 2016 to 14.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=7.5 · 2021=12.4 · 2023=14.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 280% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Blanca
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 172 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blanca (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberty Fruit Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liberty Fruit Co. averages 12.6 TCR (280% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Liberty Fruit Co. TCR series: 2016=19.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=7.5 · 2021=12.4 · 2023=14.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Liberty Fruit Co. falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Liberty Fruit Co. (290 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Liberty Fruit Co.
Liberty Fruit Co. (290 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Liberty Fruit Co. has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2023 14.5 9.8 34 0 0
2021 12.4 11.2 30 0 0
2019 7.5 7.5 23 1 0
2018 9.2 8.0 30 0 0
2016 19.3 17.9 55 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · KS · Kansas City

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas 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 Blanca 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GloriAnn Farms Tracy 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Pak Avocado 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caruthers Raisin Packing Co., Inc. 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mammoth Sports Construction 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharpline Converting, Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eldorado National Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCY-ODFL 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Warroad High School 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-012-Owensboro ( RK-012 ) 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR F/T Araho 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mike Cassara Masonry, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Patrick Family Farms LLC 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 740 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Laramie River Station 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Cloud Business Center 290 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.