Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Kansas

Manufacturing

Wamego, KS · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Manufacturing: 11.1 TCR = 337% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing safety composite

Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−6.8

2016→2019

Manufacturing injury rate improved

Manufacturing's TCR fell 6.8 from 14.6 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.6 · 2018=11.0 · 2019=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Wamego, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 337% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #22/22
  • PHOTO Swanton Welding & Ma…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swanton Welding & Machining / Heavy Fab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing averages 11.1 TCR (337% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing TCR series: 2016=14.6 · 2018=11 · 2019=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Manufacturing falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 22 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Kansas.

Manufacturing (53 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Manufacturing
Manufacturing (53 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 7.8 7.8 3 2 0
2018 11.0 0.0 6 0 0
2016 14.6 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · KS · Wamego

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Wamego, 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 Swanton Welding & Machining / Heavy Fab 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulley Steel and Supplies 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poseidon Barge - Berne 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau - Raleigh RS 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - kismet 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Building Companies, Inc NBAF 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonic Equipment Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wamego Work Tools 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR KSWIC048 WAMEGO HEALTH CENTER 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC048 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dymax Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Rapid City Pipe & Precast 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Progreso LMMM Wichita Falls #1, LLC 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Frazee Construction 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Theodore MOB 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Deploy HR Allentown Frozen 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wild Electric Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGC - Westwego Plant 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navarino Property Management 53 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: 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.