Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Kansas

Novation iQ

Lenexa, KS · ~143 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novation iQ runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Novation iQ: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novation iQ safety composite

Novation iQ scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Novation iQ: 4.1 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2019

Novation iQ's TCR rose 0.6 from 4.1 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Lenexa, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Richmond Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richmond Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novation iQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novation iQ averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Novation iQ TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=5 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Novation iQ falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Foam plastics products (except employers in Kansas.

Novation iQ (143 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Novation iQ
Novation iQ (143 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Novation iQ has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 4.7 4.0 6 1 0
2018 1.3 0.7 2 0 0
2017 5.0 2.1 7 0 0
2016 4.1 2.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · KS · Lenexa

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Lenexa, 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 Richmond Plant 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coleman Company - NEKS 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Plant 38 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aeroflex USA 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Mechanical Construction Co 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hills Pet Nutrition 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chanute Manufacturing Co 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crestwood, Inc. 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR RailCrew Xpress 3,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR LENEXA (KSLEN) 2,266 FTE
CITY-NEAR KSLEN - LENEXA 2,183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kiewit Corporation_9401 Renner Boulevard 1,653 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Senior Living of Derry, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Ridgefield 12648 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuff Shed Store 470 -Tampa - SE 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 1757 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meijer 262 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pickens Couunty Medical Center 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSVI 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halverson Construction Company 143 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: 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.