Bonded warehousing, refrigerated · Kansas

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood

Elwood, KS · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bonded warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade F.

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood: 12.0 TCR = 206% of Bonded warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood safety composite

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.4

2018→2021

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood injury rate improved

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood's TCR fell 14.4 from 19.2 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.2 · 2021=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Elwood, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 206% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO J. Milicic & Son Col…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J. Milicic & Son Cold Storage (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood averages 12.0 TCR (206% of the Bonded warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood TCR series: 2018=19.2 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood falls in its industry

1,039 Bonded warehousing, refrigerat establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Bonded warehousing, refrigerat employers in Kansas.

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood (76 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood
Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood (76 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood has more employees than the Bonded warehousing, refrigerated median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.8 3.8 5 0 0
2018 19.2 15.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · KS · Elwood

1,039 Bonded warehousing, refrigerated employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Elwood, 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 J. Milicic & Son Cold Storage 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broken Bow Freezer 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN PERISHABLES WAREHOUSE 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1387 - AURORA CO (WET) DEPOT 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods Inc. Conventional 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Rohrer Contracting 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE HABCO, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Outdoor Custom Sportswear LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snorkel International LLC 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Elwood-St. Joseph 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Elwood 58 FTE
NAT-TCR SCI Wausau, LLC 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets View Ridge 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheney Pulp and Paper Company 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Halligan Electric 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE FT Group, LLC. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drillers F &B LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Grass Manufacturing Co. of Lexington, Inc 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSNA 824 Mid America - Hot Springs 76 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.