Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing · Kansas

Mears Fertilizer Inc

Ed Dorado, KS · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mears Fertilizer Inc runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mears Fertilizer Inc: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mears Fertilizer Inc safety composite

Mears Fertilizer Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.0

2022→2024

Mears Fertilizer Inc injury rate improved

Mears Fertilizer Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.8 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.8 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Ed Dorado, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO NEFCO-Detroit
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEFCO-Detroit (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mears Fertilizer Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mears Fertilizer Inc averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mears Fertilizer Inc TCR series: 2022=8.8 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Mears Fertilizer Inc falls in its industry

85 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous employers in Kansas.

Mears Fertilizer Inc (51 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mears Fertilizer Inc
Mears Fertilizer Inc (51 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Mears Fertilizer Inc has fewer employees than the Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 8.8 3.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · KS · Ed Dorado

85 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas 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 NEFCO-Detroit 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Readfield Agronomy 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Culbertson Wholesale Production Plant 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEFCO-Quincy 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Kismet 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Contracting 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAMCO, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Charlie Yates Golf Course 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Nursery 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnolia Estates 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Chopper #900 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Out of the Woods Custom Cabinetry 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Methuen ACAC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laurel Park Behavioral Health Center 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galaxy Vegas LLC 51 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.