Salt, table, manufacturing · Kansas

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson

Hutchinson, KS · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salt, table, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson: 5.3 TCR = 128% of Salt, table, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson safety composite

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson: 3.7 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2020

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.7 in 2019 to 6.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Hutchinson, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Cargill Freedom
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Freedom (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morton Salt- South Hutchinson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morton Salt- South Hutchinson averages 5.3 TCR (128% of the Salt, table, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=6.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Morton Salt- South Hutchinson falls in its industry

200 Salt, table, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Salt, table, manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson (150 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Morton Salt- South Hutchinson
Morton Salt- South Hutchinson (150 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Morton Salt- South Hutchinson has more employees than the Salt, table, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 6.8 4.9 11 0 0
2019 3.7 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · KS · Hutchinson

200 Salt, table, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 94 employers in Hutchinson, 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 Cargill Freedom 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FlavorSum, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BADIA SPICES LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elite Spice, Inc. Reno location 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kansas Paving 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alphia-Bern 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGCO Corporation - Beloit, Kansas 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCBSKS-Building E 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System 1,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson Regional Medical Center 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR 794 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 794 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Smithfield Direct- Little Rock 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solstice Senior Living at Fairport 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Seele, inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waukegan, IL - Renal Distr. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Steele Memorial Hospital 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE AstenJohnson Charleston - Corporate 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Estates of Barrington 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Town Manor Rehab and Health 150 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: 2020, 2019. 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.