Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Kansas

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank

Garden City, KS · ~119 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank safety composite

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−7.5

2018→2024

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank injury rate improved

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank's TCR fell 7.5 from 11.6 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.6 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO The Egging Company
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Egging Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Manufacturing & Tank in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Manufacturing & Tank averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank TCR series: 2018=11.6 · 2019=9.9 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Palmer Manufacturing & Tank falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Kansas.

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank (119 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmer Manufacturing & Tank
Palmer Manufacturing & Tank (119 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Palmer Manufacturing & Tank has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.0 0.8 5 0 0
2023 6.1 3.8 8 0 0
2022 2.9 1.5 4 0 0
2021 5.9 1.7 6 1 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.9 5.0 14 0 0
2018 11.6 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · KS · Garden City

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, 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 The Egging Company 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PRODUCTION TOOL CO. LLC. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Welding Company of Ohio, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bloomer Machine & Fab Inc 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson - Paper - B282 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAADER LINCO, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triumph Accessory Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlow Aerostructures LLC 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Matthews Glen 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Autodie 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TXW008 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rhoads Industries - B57 Non-Construction 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HF Physicians Dba HF Private Duty 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berkshire Gas Company 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manhattan Beach Toyota 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacobs - ATLANTA AIRLINES TERMINAL - OMI 119 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.