Truck trailer manufacturing · Kansas

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS

Independence, KS · ~201 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS safety composite

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS: 3.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.8 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Independence, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO West Jefferson
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Jefferson (0.0 TCR gap)

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STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Kansas.

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS (201 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS
STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS (201 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS has more employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 5.3 1.6 12 1 0
2023 3.8 0.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · KS · Independence

474 Truck trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Independence, 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 West Jefferson 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Dane; Brazil, IN 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPP 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATC Trailers 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manko Window Systems, Inc. - Manhattan 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE IKEA #374 Merriam 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00095 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1691 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Independence 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Motor Products 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2893 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2893 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Haysite Reinforced Plastics 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Comstock Park 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR All Weather Contractors 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glendale Renaissance 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amanda Manufacturing 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE University Park Terminal 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Pik, Inc. 201 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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