Commercial building construction · Kansas

Sonic Equipment Company

Iola, KS · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sonic Equipment Company runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Sonic Equipment Company: 3.9 TCR = 133% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sonic Equipment Company safety composite

Sonic Equipment Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Sonic Equipment Company: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2020

Sonic Equipment Company's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Iola, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 133% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #34/63
  • PHOTO Verst Langley
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verst Langley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sonic Equipment Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sonic Equipment Company averages 3.9 TCR (133% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Sonic Equipment Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=4.4 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 2.9

Where Sonic Equipment Company falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 63 Commercial building constructi employers in Kansas.

Sonic Equipment Company (53 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Sonic Equipment Company
Sonic Equipment Company (53 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Sonic Equipment Company has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2018 4.4 2.9 3 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · KS · Iola

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 19 employers in Iola, 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 Verst Langley 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5597_12378 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLY Construction, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - kismet 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Building Companies, Inc NBAF 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boone Brothers Kansas 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iola 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gates Corporation Iola KS 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1187 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Carson Tahoe Dayton Medical Center 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 635 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Tank Car Company - Valdosta, GA 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ChemAid Laboratories Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Westover Hills 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young Engineers, Inc., the 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE HFC - Cookeville 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECS Environmental Solutions 53 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: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.