Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Missouri

QT Kitchens - Belton

Belton, MO · ~258 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

QT Kitchens - Belton runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

QT Kitchens - Belton: 16.0 TCR = 390% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

QT Kitchens - Belton safety composite

QT Kitchens - Belton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

QT Kitchens - Belton: 14.5 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2023

QT Kitchens - Belton's TCR rose 4.2 from 14.5 in 2017 to 18.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Belton, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 390% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Tubeway
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 171 inj
  • SIZE ~258 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tubeway (0.1 TCR gap)

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QT Kitchens - Belton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows QT Kitchens - Belton averages 16.0 TCR (390% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

QT Kitchens - Belton TCR series: 2017=14.5 · 2018=12.3 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=21.3 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=18.7 · BLS 4.1

Where QT Kitchens - Belton falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Missouri.

QT Kitchens - Belton (258 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate QT Kitchens - Belton
QT Kitchens - Belton (258 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

QT Kitchens - Belton has more employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 18.7 15.1 31 0 0
2022 20.9 17.2 32 2 0
2021 21.3 19.6 23 2 0
2020 8.3 7.5 10 0 0
2018 12.3 9.0 30 0 0
2017 14.5 12.6 45 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · MO · Belton

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 38 employers in Belton, 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 Tubeway 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&P Packing Co.,Inc 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commissary 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dawns Foods 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - Springfield 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Cart Company 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Office 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Sarah Community 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belton Regional Medical Center 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belton Branch 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR QNT - Belton 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belton - Main Store 210 FTE
NAT-TCR Avantara Aurora 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Concord Supply Inc 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 568715-Mil-Wauwatosa Br 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nhc Healthcare, Cookeville 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spring View Hospital 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Plymouth 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Crafts 258 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seven Hills Health & Rehab Center 258 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.