Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Kansas

Niece Products of Kansas

Fort Scott, KS · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Niece Products of Kansas runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Niece Products of Kansas: 11.2 TCR = 341% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Niece Products of Kansas safety composite

Niece Products of Kansas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Niece Products of Kansas: 5.9 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2021

Niece Products of Kansas's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.9 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Fort Scott, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 341% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Highland Tank of Cen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highland Tank of Central Michigan (0.1 TCR gap)

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Niece Products of Kansas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Niece Products of Kansas averages 11.2 TCR (341% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Niece Products of Kansas TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=12.8 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=18.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Niece Products of Kansas falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Kansas.

Niece Products of Kansas (35 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 Niece Products of Kansas
Niece Products of Kansas (35 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Niece Products of Kansas has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 7.5 7.5 2 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 1 1 0
2019 18.4 2.6 7 0 0
2018 16.1 10.7 6 0 0
2017 12.8 2.5 4 1 0
2016 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · KS · Fort Scott

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Fort Scott, 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 Highland Tank of Central Michigan 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morfab Company Inc 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrow Tank and Engineering Company, Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maguire Tank 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Pioneer Electric Company Liberal District 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peerless Products Inc 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ward-Kraft, Inc. 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-Continental Restoration Co., Inc. 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 39 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Systems Plumbing 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 235076-Lanham-Seabrook Po 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Niles 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-04723 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Princeton - Fire and Rescue Department 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoney Creek Investors of Broken Arrow, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Street Iron & Metal Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missoula Store 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.