Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing · Kansas

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility

Hesston, KS · ~750 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
4
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility safety composite

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 4

Safer than 1% 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

−9.6

2016→2023

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility injury rate improved

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility's TCR fell 9.6 from 11.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.6 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Hesston, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Worldlawn Power Equi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 378 inj
  • SIZE ~750 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Worldlawn Power Equipment, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing and Engineering Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing and Engineering Facility averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility TCR series: 2016=11.6 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Manufacturing and Engineering Facility falls in its industry

91 Grass mowing equipment, powere establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Grass mowing equipment, powere employers in Kansas.

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility (750 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Manufacturing and Engineering Facility
Manufacturing and Engineering Facility (750 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Manufacturing and Engineering Facility has more employees than the Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and 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
2023 2.0 1.0 14 0 0
2022 6.2 2.1 45 1 0
2021 7.3 3.6 46 5 0
2020 4.7 1.8 26 2 0
2019 4.6 2.5 31 0 0
2018 6.5 3.7 46 0 0
2017 8.1 5.8 60 4 0
2016 11.6 6.6 110 1 4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · KS · Hesston

91 Grass mowing equipment, powered lawn and garden, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hesston, 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 Worldlawn Power Equipment, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Billy Goat Industries 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amerequip Kiel 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abilene - Landpride 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1855-KSWIC035 749 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foot Locker Corporate Services Inc. 746 FTE
STATE-SIZE KS-Wichita Call Center 746 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7235_16622 745 FTE
CITY-NEAR AGCO : Hesston 1,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR AGCO Hesston 1,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Construction Company, Inc 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMG of Kansas 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Kewaunee East 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Face to Face Health & Counseling - SafeZone 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Asheville Walden Ridge 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reed Manufacturing Co 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE JC Gutierrez Labor Service 750 FTE
NAT-SIZE U of M Masonic Children's Hosp 750 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniel RP Management, LLC 750 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bandon Dunes LP 750 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.