Environmental remediation services · Kansas

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant

Desoto, KS · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Environmental remediation services workplace, earning a grade B.

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant: 1.9 TCR = 71% of Environmental remediation services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant safety composite

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2021

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562910 · Desoto, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO Datom Products Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Datom Products Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant averages 1.9 TCR (71% of the Environmental remediation services BLS benchmark).

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

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 2.6

Where Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant falls in its industry

672 Environmental remediation serv establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Environmental remediation serv employers in Kansas.

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (38 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant (38 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant has fewer employees than the Environmental remediation services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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 5.5 1.9 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562910 · KS · Desoto

672 Environmental remediation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Desoto, 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 Datom Products Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEG Westbury Branch 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rescon Alaska LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elite Environmental, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Cattle Feeders North #1 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irsik and Doll Feed Yard 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huhtamaki De Soto 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Engineered Air 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeSoto, KS Facility 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rehrig Pacific Company Kansas 128 FTE
NAT-TCR Reading Fulfillment Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR L. F. Manufacturing, Inc. Main Plant 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheyenne Mountain Resort 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison- 34 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAS-BON 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgeview Courthouse 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Island Plumbing 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson Logistics Services 7 38 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, 2019, 2018. 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.