Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Kansas

Royal Beef Feed Yard

Scott City, KS · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Beef Feed Yard runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade D.

Royal Beef Feed Yard: 8.8 TCR = 195% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Beef Feed Yard safety composite

Royal Beef Feed Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.1

2016→2024

Royal Beef Feed Yard injury rate improved

Royal Beef Feed Yard's TCR fell 3.1 from 9.2 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=16.1 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Scott City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 195% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #43/50
  • PHOTO Midwest Feeders, Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Feeders, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal Beef Feed Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Beef Feed Yard averages 8.8 TCR (195% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Beef Feed Yard TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=16.1 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where Royal Beef Feed Yard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 50 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Kansas.

Royal Beef Feed Yard (33 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal Beef Feed Yard
Royal Beef Feed Yard (33 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Royal Beef Feed Yard has fewer employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2023 12.8 9.6 4 0 0
2022 10.3 10.3 5 0 0
2021 12.6 10.1 4 1 0
2020 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 16.1 13.4 6 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2017 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2016 9.2 6.9 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Scott City

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Scott 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 Midwest Feeders, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beefland Feed Yard 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lane County Feeders, LLC 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookover Ranch Feedyard 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunbelt Feed Yard 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linn Willow Creek Dairy LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upland Pork LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowe 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scott County Hospital 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc. 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Lane Nursing Home 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR POKY FEEDERS, INC. 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Arrowhead Ranch 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stew Leonard's - Newington 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Human Technologies, Inc. Ardmore 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Webster 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teknor Thermoplastic Elastomers, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA Warehouse 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interstate Printing Company 33 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.