TRANSPORTATION · Kansas

Nci - Liberal

Liberal, KS · ~456 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Nci - Liberal runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical TRANSPORTATION workplace, earning a grade C.

Nci - Liberal: 4.5 TCR = 99% of TRANSPORTATION BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nci - Liberal safety composite

Nci - Liberal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−6.2

2016→2024

Nci - Liberal injury rate improved

Nci - Liberal's TCR fell 6.2 from 10.3 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Liberal, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #31/41
  • PHOTO Augusta
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 184 inj
  • SIZE ~456 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Augusta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nci - Liberal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nci - Liberal averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the TRANSPORTATION BLS benchmark).

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

Nci - Liberal TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Nci - Liberal falls in its industry

3,252 TRANSPORTATION establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #31 safest of 41 TRANSPORTATION employers in Kansas.

Nci - Liberal (456 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Nci - Liberal
Nci - Liberal (456 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Nci - Liberal has more employees than the TRANSPORTATION 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
2024 4.1 2.7 24 0 0
2023 4.3 2.6 21 0 0
2022 2.9 1.8 16 0 0
2021 2.6 1.1 14 0 0
2020 3.7 3.0 21 0 0
2019 4.4 2.0 26 0 0
2018 4.3 1.6 26 0 1
2017 3.7 2.3 24 0 0
2016 10.3 3.4 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KS · Liberal

3,252 TRANSPORTATION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 34 employers in Liberal, 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 Augusta 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHATTANOOGA CHA 1 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTI- Rapid City, SD 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olive Branch Terminal 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iola 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWG, Kansas City 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE RESER'S-TOPEKA SALAD PLANT 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornejo & Sons, LLC 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Beef Packing Company 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR 799 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 799 310 FTE
NAT-TCR 017-FTW 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 032-SAL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 201 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 160 Kings Highway 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE McKinley Companies LLC 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendale (75) 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE C024 Hanover 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waverly Akins Wake County Office Building 456 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.