Feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle · Kansas

NA Timmerman - Colby

Colby, KS · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NA Timmerman - Colby runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

NA Timmerman - Colby: 13.5 TCR = 300% of Feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NA Timmerman - Colby safety composite

NA Timmerman - Colby scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−5.7

2016→2017

NA Timmerman - Colby injury rate improved

NA Timmerman - Colby's TCR fell 5.7 from 16.4 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.4 · 2017=10.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Colby, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 300% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #49/50
  • PHOTO El Oro Cattle Feeder…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: El Oro Cattle Feeders LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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NA Timmerman - Colby in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NA Timmerman - Colby averages 13.5 TCR (300% of the Feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle BLS benchmark).

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

NA Timmerman - Colby TCR series: 2016=16.4 · 2017=10.6 · BLS 4.5

Where NA Timmerman - Colby falls in its industry

165 Feed yards (except stockyards establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 50 Feed yards (except stockyards employers in Kansas.

NA Timmerman - Colby (27 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NA Timmerman - Colby
NA Timmerman - Colby (27 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

NA Timmerman - Colby has fewer employees than the Feed yards (except stockyards for transp median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2017 10.6 4.3 5 0 0
2016 16.4 2.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Colby

165 Feed yards (except stockyards for transportation), cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 17 employers in Colby, 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 El Oro Cattle Feeders LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Don Oppliger Companies 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-LL-Pasco Feedlot 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gooding Heifer Ranch 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turon Feed Yard 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tecumseh Energy Center 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREAT BEND SC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citizens Health 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citizens Medical Center 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1214 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1214 164 FTE
NAT-TCR 0094 - Little Rock, Ar 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Charlotte (Flpoc) 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance and Operations - Airport Road Building M 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ritter Production Farms, Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE U.S office- Sales & Distribution- Lewmar Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0346 - Hialeah, Fl 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0296 - Spokane, Wa 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0146 - Margate, Fl 27 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: 2017, 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.