Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing · Missouri

Oregon Tool - KC Blades

Kansas City, MO · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oregon Tool - KC Blades runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Oregon Tool - KC Blades: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oregon Tool - KC Blades safety composite

Oregon Tool - KC Blades scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−3.4

2022→2024

Oregon Tool - KC Blades injury rate improved

Oregon Tool - KC Blades's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.0 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.0 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO ECHO Incorporated
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ECHO Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oregon Tool - KC Blades in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oregon Tool - KC Blades averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Oregon Tool - KC Blades TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Oregon Tool - KC Blades falls in its industry

91 Lawn and garden equipment manu establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Lawn and garden equipment manu employers in Missouri.

Oregon Tool - KC Blades (109 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Oregon Tool - KC Blades
Oregon Tool - KC Blades (109 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Oregon Tool - KC Blades has fewer employees than the Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing 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
2024 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 7.4 4.3 7 0 0
2022 5.0 2.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · MO · Kansas City

91 Lawn and garden equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 ECHO Incorporated 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schiller Grounds Care, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schiller Grounds Care-JC Facility 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ariens Company 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Capital Railroad Contracting, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wies Drywall and Construction Corp. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Interiors Showroom 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR XID 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Allentown 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Primex Plastics Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Patrick J. Stepaniak, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keystone Quality Transport Company - NE Base 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matesich Distributing Co 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vanguard BR 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSC Industries - Maple Street 109 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.