Farm supply stores · Kansas

Tarwaters Inc

Topeka, KS · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tarwaters Inc runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Tarwaters Inc: 6.0 TCR = 177% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tarwaters Inc safety composite

Tarwaters Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Tarwaters Inc: 4.4 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2023

Tarwaters Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.4 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO RK-053-Hamilton ( RK…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-053-Hamilton ( RK-053 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tarwaters Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tarwaters Inc averages 6.0 TCR (177% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tarwaters Inc TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Tarwaters Inc falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Farm supply stores employers in Kansas.

Tarwaters Inc (40 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 Tarwaters Inc
Tarwaters Inc (40 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Tarwaters Inc has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2022 8.8 0.0 3 0 0
2017 4.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · KS · Topeka

642 Farm supply stores 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 RK-053-Hamilton ( RK-053 ) 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weeks Roses 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hinsdale Nurseries - Willowbrook 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Esposito Nursery Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MANHATTAN SC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6271-2700 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE TUKH Cambridge Tower 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. 40 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 Beaumont Cherry Valley Water District 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ctp - Holloman Afb, Nm 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rumpke Lima 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Methods Machine Tools, Inc - North Carolina 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phelps Construction Group LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALPROEM Engineering Contractors Corp./ABBVIE BARCELONETA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paxton Contractors Corporation 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sfo Ltl 40 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: 2023, 2022, 2017. 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.