Aircraft manufacturing · Kansas

Textron Aviation - Defense

Wichita, KS · ~532 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Textron Aviation - Defense runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Textron Aviation - Defense: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Textron Aviation - Defense safety composite

Textron Aviation - Defense scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Textron Aviation - Defense held a steady TCR band

Textron Aviation - Defense's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.9 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Wichita, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Aircorps - Restoration
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~532 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aircorps - Restoration (0.0 TCR gap)

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Textron Aviation - Defense in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Textron Aviation - Defense averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Textron Aviation - Defense TCR series: 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Textron Aviation - Defense falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 Aircraft manufacturing employers in Kansas.

Textron Aviation - Defense (532 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Textron Aviation - Defense
Textron Aviation - Defense (532 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Textron Aviation - Defense has more employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 0.8 0.5 5 0 0
2023 2.0 1.2 11 1 0
2022 0.9 0.2 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · KS · Wichita

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 Aircorps - Restoration 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchinson Aerospace 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A37 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Atomics - Poway - A25 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeview Village 533 FTE
STATE-SIZE KANSAS CITY GLOBAL BUSINESS SERVICES GBS (KSOPK) 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Medical Center 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE McPherson Refinery 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR 065 - Gainesville Fl 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Industries LLC - Prairie State Energy Campus-IL 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Aluma Systems Concrete Construction of California Inc. - Fontana CA 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR D48 Shreveport 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nippon Dynawave Packaging 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region 052 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Otis Service Center 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pure's Food Specialties LLC 532 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. 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.