Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products · Kansas

Premier Food Service

Wichita, KS · ~172 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Premier Food Service runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products workplace, earning a grade C.

Premier Food Service: 4.0 TCR = 117% of Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Food Service safety composite

Premier Food Service scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−3.0

2017→2023

Premier Food Service injury rate improved

Premier Food Service's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.7 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.7 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=3.0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454210 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO CK DIST-Lenexa
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CK DIST-Lenexa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premier Food Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Food Service averages 4.0 TCR (117% of the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Food Service TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=3 · 2020=3 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Premier Food Service falls in its industry

311 Vending machine merchandisers, establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.1.

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 6 Vending machine merchandisers, employers in Kansas.

Premier Food Service (172 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Premier Food Service
Premier Food Service (172 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1

Premier Food Service has more employees than the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.1. 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
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 8.2 7.5 12 0 0
2020 3.0 0.7 4 0 0
2019 3.0 1.8 5 0 1
2018 5.1 2.6 8 0 0
2017 3.7 2.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454210 · KS · Wichita

311 Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 CK DIST-Lenexa 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MANSFIELD, OH BRANCH 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLUMBUS, OH BRANCH 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bettis Asphalt 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCB-Lawrence 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transcontinental Robbie 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Truck Line, Inc. 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Arnold Magnetic Technology 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Elrods Cost Plus #9 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tatum Brothers Lumber Company, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Structure Tone 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jones Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc. 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cosette Pharmaceuticals Inc 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 172 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.