Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel · Kansas

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems

Paola, KS · ~154 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems safety composite

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−3.3

2020→2024

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems injury rate improved

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems's TCR fell 3.3 from 3.8 in 2020 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.8 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · Paola, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO INDUSTRIAL METAL SPE…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INDUSTRIAL METAL SPECIALTIES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taylor Forge Engineered Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taylor Forge Engineered Systems averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems TCR series: 2020=3.8 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Taylor Forge Engineered Systems falls in its industry

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 6 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, loc employers in Kansas.

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems (154 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Taylor Forge Engineered Systems
Taylor Forge Engineered Systems (154 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Taylor Forge Engineered Systems has more employees than the Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.6 1.6 5 0 0
2022 6.4 3.5 11 0 0
2021 6.7 4.5 9 0 0
2020 3.8 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · KS · Paola

329 Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, lock joint, seamless, welded) made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 21 employers in Paola, 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 INDUSTRIAL METAL SPECIALTIES 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTC Liberty Tubulars LLC - Liberty Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACCU-TUBE LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlas Tube Blytheville 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 615-00040 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton O'Neil Heart Center 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen County Regional Hospital 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satanta District Hospital & LTCU 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakemary Center, Inc. (Paola) 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 242 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR 242 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doherty Steel 159 FTE
NAT-TCR High School 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alessandro Electric, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rural Alaska Community Action Program Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emjay Engineering & Construction CO. Inc. 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2249 - Ansonia 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2486 - South Lebanon 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2467 - Park North 154 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.