General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Kansas

Mies & Sons - Colwich

Name: Mies & Sons - Colwich Workplace Safety Data
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Colwich, KS · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mies & Sons - Colwich runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Mies & Sons - Colwich: 4.3 TCR = 96% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mies & Sons - Colwich safety composite

Mies & Sons - Colwich scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Mies & Sons - Colwich: 4.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2023

Mies & Sons - Colwich's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.5 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Colwich, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #28/41
PHOTO Blackhawk Transport …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blackhawk Transport Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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S&J Potashnick

4.3
HDS-Wilmington

4.3

What this shows Mies & Sons - Colwich averages 4.3 TCR (96% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Mies & Sons - Colwich TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Mies & Sons - Colwich falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 41 General freight trucking, long employers in Kansas.

Mies & Sons - Colwich (46 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Mies & Sons - Colwich has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023	6.7	2.2	3
2021	1.9	1.9	1
2020	4.5	2.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KS · Colwich

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Colwich, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Blackhawk Transport Inc	BELOIT, WI	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RL Transport, LLC	CASSVILLE, MO	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	S&J Potashnick Transp., Inc	SIKESTON, MO	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HDS-Wilmington	WILMINGTON, NC	4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WCNOC	BURLINGTON	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SVH HR Administration Building	TOPEKA	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Straub Construction Co Inc	SHAWNEE	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Snodgrass & Sons Construction Co, Inc.	WICHITA	46 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ICM, Inc.	Colwich	272 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ELEMENT, LLC	Colwich	56 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Element Ethanol	Colwich	44 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colwich Gardens Assisted Living, LLC	Colwich	24 FTE
NAT-TCR	Olon Industries	Lexington, NC	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hatchery (Watertown)	Watertown, NY	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kuhns Construction LLC	Sullivan, IL	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	America's Thrift Store #15	Rainbow City, AL	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The A Johnson Co., LLC	Bristol, VT	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DeWitt Packaging Corporation	Grand Rapids, MI	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	SF - Santa Fe	Santa Fe, NM	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bend BN	Bend, OR	46 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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