Other Animal Food Manufacturing · Kansas

Topeka Feed Plant

Topeka, KS · ~52 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Topeka Feed Plant runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Animal Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Topeka Feed Plant: 0.6 TCR = 16% of Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Topeka Feed Plant safety composite

Topeka Feed Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Topeka Feed Plant: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Topeka Feed Plant's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Topeka, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO Mr. Bird
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mr. Bird (0.0 TCR gap)

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Topeka Feed Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Topeka Feed Plant averages 0.6 TCR (16% of the Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Topeka Feed Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Topeka Feed Plant falls in its industry

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 24 Other Animal Food Manufacturin employers in Kansas.

Topeka Feed Plant (52 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Topeka Feed Plant
Topeka Feed Plant (52 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Topeka Feed Plant has more employees than the Other Animal Food Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · KS · Topeka

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturing 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 Mr. Bird 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.D. Heiskell & Co. Tulare Hillman 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutrition 101,LLC Pendleton 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vita Plus Corporation 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wichita Kansas 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Feedyard LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Leawood 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unique Metal Fabrication, LLC 52 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 White House (formerly Gateway Packaging Company LLC) 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Brands : 0Y21 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Branch Network : 0772 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Branch Network : 0580 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EP On-site (Caterpillar) 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Umicore Glens Falls NY 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG550 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE entrotech 52 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: 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.