Glazing contractors · Kansas

Sowards Glass, Inc.

Topeka, KS · ~25 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sowards Glass, Inc. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Glazing contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Sowards Glass, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 188% of Glazing contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sowards Glass, Inc. safety composite

Sowards Glass, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sowards Glass, Inc.: 7.7 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.22× in 2024

Sowards Glass, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.0 from 7.7 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238150 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 188% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Seele, inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seele, inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sowards Glass, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sowards Glass, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (188% of the Glazing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sowards Glass, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Sowards Glass, Inc. falls in its industry

531 Glazing contractors establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sowards Glass, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sowards Glass, Inc.
Sowards Glass, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Sowards Glass, Inc. has fewer employees than the Glazing contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 11.7 11.7 5 0 0
2023 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 7.7 7.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238150 · KS · Topeka

531 Glazing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, 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 Seele, inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCI Charleston 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Glass 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brin Glass Service 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ILS Farm Partnership 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOW 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms-Summit 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paola Service Center 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Clare Meadows Care Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Paulo - St. Louis 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR XLF 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Landcare Landscaping 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roth Global Plastics - Syracuse, NY 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing Plant 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daltile / Florence PDC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rozga Plumbing and Heating Corporation 25 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.