Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, plaster, lath, rock, tile) manufacturing · Kansas

NGC- Medicine Lodge

Medicine Lodge, KS · ~112 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGC- Medicine Lodge runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, plaster, lath, rock, tile) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

NGC- Medicine Lodge: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, plaster, lath, rock, tile) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGC- Medicine Lodge safety composite

NGC- Medicine Lodge scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

NGC- Medicine Lodge: 0.7 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2018

NGC- Medicine Lodge's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.7 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Medicine Lodge, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P62
  • PHOTO NGC - Long Beach Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NGC - Long Beach Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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NGC- Medicine Lodge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGC- Medicine Lodge averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, plaster, lath, rock, tile) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NGC- Medicine Lodge TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where NGC- Medicine Lodge falls in its industry

123 Gypsum products (e.g., block, establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NGC- Medicine Lodge (112 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NGC- Medicine Lodge
NGC- Medicine Lodge (112 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NGC- Medicine Lodge has more employees than the Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, pla median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2018 3.2 2.4 4 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · KS · Medicine Lodge

123 Gypsum products (e.g., block, board, plaster, lath, rock, tile) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Medicine Lodge, 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 NGC - Long Beach Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong World Industries- Macon Ceiling Tile Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGC - Atlanta Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Bond Building Products 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8549_19713 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crosswind Sabetha 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Foods, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 15 Commerce Dr. 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gold Bond Building Medicine Lodge 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Pioneer Electric Company Medicine Lodge District 29 FTE
NAT-TCR NA-US-DE-Newark-Executive Drive 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Metal Containers-Cans 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Methodist Allen Road Family Medicine 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulare Food Service Packaging 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Randall Tilt Structures 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plano SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Accel at Willowbend 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powerback Lakewood 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Vista Grande Villa 112 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: 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.