Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives · Kansas

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC

Hugoton, KS · ~73 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives workplace, earning a grade D.

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC safety composite

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.3

2020→2024

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC injury rate improved

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC's TCR fell 3.3 from 5.7 in 2020 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.7 · 2021=15.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Hugoton, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Evans Chemetics
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evans Chemetics (0.1 TCR gap)

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Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives BLS benchmark).

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

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC TCR series: 2020=5.7 · 2021=15.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC falls in its industry

552 Transesterification of vegetab establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Transesterification of vegetab employers in Kansas.

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC (73 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC
Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC (73 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Seaboard Energy Kansas, LLC has more employees than the Transesterification of vegetable oils to median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 2.4 1.6 3 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2022 5.5 3.3 4 1 0
2021 15.3 11.4 3 5 0
2020 5.7 5.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · KS · Hugoton

552 Transesterification of vegetable oils to produce fuels or fuel additives employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hugoton, 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 Evans Chemetics 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life Sciences : IDT - San Diego 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Envirotech Chemical Services 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Victory Electric Cooperative Assn., Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE API KS MFG 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Fertilizer, LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICI MANUFACTURING 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natural Gas Compressor Manufacture 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR KDI Operating Company 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Plains Gas Compression Holdings, LLC 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR HUGOTON FM & DELIVERY 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Clark Beverage Group Inc. (KY) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR International Equipment Logistics Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 10101 Walnut Creek 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0260 - St Louis Park 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Val Verde Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmer Westbrook Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 195 Monmouth 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 841 Red Oak 73 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.