Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing · Kansas

The Carlson Company, Inc.

Park City, KS · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Carlson Company, Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

The Carlson Company, Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Carlson Company, Inc. safety composite

The Carlson Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2017→2023

The Carlson Company, Inc. injury rate improved

The Carlson Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333613 · Park City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Webster
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Webster (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Carlson Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Carlson Company, Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Carlson Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where The Carlson Company, Inc. falls in its industry

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Carlson Company, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Carlson Company, Inc.
The Carlson Company, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.4

The Carlson Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.9 0.0 2 0 0
2020 8.3 0.0 3 0 0
2019 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2018 5.2 0.0 2 0 0
2017 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333613 · KS · Park City

111 Ball joints (except aircraft, motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 27 employers in Park City, 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 Webster 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walterscheid Inc. Woodridge 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miba Bearings US, LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ingalls Feed Yard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feedyard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE HBI & Home Farm 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrence 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ICT2 782 FTE
CITY-NEAR FMI, Inc. 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kice Industries, Inc 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branch 52 148 FTE
NAT-TCR UDFW 4679 (Stonebridge - F) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson River Lumber Company of Montana Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Strata-Tac. Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (BEX-6308) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ascension At Home Portage 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - Anchorage Branch 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratford Specialty Care 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Shale Brick Stanton 36 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.