Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis · Kansas

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena

Wathena, KS · ~124 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade C.

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena safety composite

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena: 1.2 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2021

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.2 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Wathena, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Load King Sedalia, M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Load King Sedalia, Missouri (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena averages 3.0 TCR (89% of the Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena falls in its industry

470 Heavy trucks assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Heavy trucks assembling on pur employers in Kansas.

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena (124 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena
Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena (124 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Summit Truck Bodies - Wathena has more employees than the Heavy trucks assembling on purchased cha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2020 4.8 1.6 6 0 0
2019 1.2 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KS · Wathena

470 Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Wathena, 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 Load King Sedalia, Missouri 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATAP, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smeal - Snyder 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gestamp Chattanooga III 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allegion PLC 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Star Lumber McCormick 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00091 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE McAlister Transportation 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Truck Bodies 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Steel Company 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR KS Fiberglass 34 FTE
NAT-TCR R & J Marietta 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Original Mowbray's Tree Service 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grant Street 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ADESA Jacksonville 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunnyvale Oakmead 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andrew Smith Company 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southerland, Nashville Plant 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastman Texas City 124 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.