Cold storage warehousing · Kansas

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood

Elwood, KS · ~88 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood: 15.3 TCR = 264% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood safety composite

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−26.3

2022→2023

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood injury rate improved

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood's TCR fell 26.3 from 28.4 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 28.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=28.4 · 2023=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 264% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO 50052 ST. LOUIS, MO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 50052 ST. LOUIS, MO (0.8 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 15.3 TCR (264% of the Cold storage warehousing 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: 2022=28.4 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 5.8

Where Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #14 safest of 14 Cold storage warehousing employers in Kansas.

Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood (88 employees, TCR 15.3) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood
Nor-Am Cold Storage Elwood (88 employees, TCR 15.3) 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 Cold storage warehousing 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
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2022 28.4 19.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · KS · Elwood

1,039 Cold storage warehousing 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 50052 ST. LOUIS, MO 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meijer DC-801 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sturbridge-NECS 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Super Cold Storage 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spandet Dairy KS 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. Non Spirit 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bedrock Concrete LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wray Roofing, Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snorkel International LLC 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Elwood-St. Joseph 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nor-Am Cold Storage - Elwood 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Elwood 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Clovis #055 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Denver at Union Station 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 103 Jacksonville 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Community Hospital, Bellflower 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE C & L Electric Cooperative Corporation 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duratech Industries International Inc 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Craftsmen Utility Trailer 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro-Thermal Corp 88 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: 2023, 2022. 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.