Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants · Kansas

Superior Essex International LP

Hoisington, KS · ~230 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Essex International LP runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Superior Essex International LP: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Essex International LP safety composite

Superior Essex International LP scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2024

Superior Essex International LP injury rate improved

Superior Essex International LP's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Hoisington, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P51
  • PHOTO Essex - Johnson Coun…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Essex - Johnson County Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Essex International LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Essex International LP averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Essex International LP TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Essex International LP falls in its industry

198 Aircraft and automotive wire o establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Superior Essex International LP (230 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Essex International LP
Superior Essex International LP (230 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Superior Essex International LP has more employees than the Aircraft and automotive wire or cable ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 2.5 0.5 5 0 0
2023 2.5 1.0 5 0 0
2022 4.8 4.3 10 1 0
2021 4.8 3.1 11 0 0
2020 3.6 2.7 6 2 0
2019 3.4 2.5 8 0 0
2018 4.7 0.8 11 0 0
2017 3.8 3.4 9 0 0
2016 2.9 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · KS · Hoisington

198 Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Essex - Johnson County Plant 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berk-Tek LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase Brass and Copper Company, LLC. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cerro Flow Products - Vinita Park 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Century 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bagcraft - Baxter Springs 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Envision, Inc - Water Street 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas Warehouse 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kansas Brick & Tile 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Bakersfield 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Heathwood Assisted Living at Penfield 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR R+L Carriers - HUN 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bescast 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stafford Corporate Office 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE R+L Carriers - ALE 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chapin International 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #175 West Chester 230 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.