Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers · Missouri

Sefar Inc. - KC

Kansas City, MO · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sefar Inc. - KC runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sefar Inc. - KC: 3.2 TCR = 146% of Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sefar Inc. - KC safety composite

Sefar Inc. - KC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−2.9

2022→2024

Sefar Inc. - KC injury rate improved

Sefar Inc. - KC's TCR fell 2.9 from 5.1 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424310 · Kansas City, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 146% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO Kimberbell
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimberbell (0.3 TCR gap)

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Sefar Inc. - KC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sefar Inc. - KC averages 3.2 TCR (146% of the Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sefar Inc. - KC TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Sefar Inc. - KC falls in its industry

45 Binding, textile, merchant who establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sefar Inc. - KC (39 employees, TCR 3.2) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 2.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sefar Inc. - KC
Sefar Inc. - KC (39 employees, TCR 3.2) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Sefar Inc. - KC has fewer employees than the Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 5.1 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424310 · MO · Kansas City

45 Binding, textile, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, 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 Kimberbell 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanes Industries 8602 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borgers SC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DISTRIBUTION CENTER 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO White Oak 006-0138-WG, WH, WT 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCP&L - Cedar Point Training Center 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Nuclear - Radiation Protection 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Nuclear - Work Management 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR Edward A. Reider, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandy UT DI 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Primary Beef-Friona Tx 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Baytown Service Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vowell's Marketplace #1 Philadelphia 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region Oil - Dover 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Griffith - Allied 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE EFC Systems, Inc. 39 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. 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.