Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Kansas

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka

Topeka, KS · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka runs at 455% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka: 10.0 TCR = 455% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka safety composite

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka: 6.2 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka's TCR rose 7.6 from 6.2 in 2023 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 455% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Refreshment Services…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Refreshment Services Pepsi Key West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka averages 10.0 TCR (455% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka TCR series: 2023=6.2 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Kansas.

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka (48 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka (48 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka has fewer employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 13.8 11.8 7 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · KS · Topeka

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, 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 Refreshment Services Pepsi Key West 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR METTER GA 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAGINAW MI 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gillette Pepsi Companies - Mankato 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Southland Service Center 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Maintenance Contractors LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCullough Excavation, Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linaweaver Construction, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Opera House Operator 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bartlett Fire Protection District 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Education Center 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waoka - Omak 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lucky Dog Contracting Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Channahon 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE SunButter LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calpack Foods 48 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. 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.