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

Mies & Sons - Garden City

Garden City, KS · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mies & Sons - Garden City runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Mies & Sons - Garden City: 3.1 TCR = 68% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mies & Sons - Garden City safety composite

Mies & Sons - Garden City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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 - Garden City: 2.2 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2023

Mies & Sons - Garden City's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.2 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #20/41
  • PHOTO Greif Mid Atlantic D…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greif Mid Atlantic Ded Riverville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mies & Sons - Garden City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mies & Sons - Garden City averages 3.1 TCR (68% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Mies & Sons - Garden City TCR series: 2020=2.2 · 2021=3.7 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Mies & Sons - Garden City falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 41 General freight trucking, long employers in Kansas.

Mies & Sons - Garden City (84 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mies & Sons - Garden City
Mies & Sons - Garden City (84 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Mies & Sons - Garden City has more 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 3.3 3.3 2 1 0
2021 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2020 2.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KS · Garden City

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 · 84 employers in Garden 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 Greif Mid Atlantic Ded Riverville 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte- Dry Bulk Transport 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menasha Terminal 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE McCarty Dairy, LLC. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy-Castle Joint Venture, Tomahawk Creek WWTF 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rest & Water 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nettles Construction Solutions, Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Prince Contracting LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Paladin Attachments 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 45th Street 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Supelco 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 500 Long Beach Boulevard, Stratford, CT 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monaco Enterprises, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miyoshi America 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Park Ridge Administration 84 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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