Highway construction · Kansas

Towanda, KS

Towanda, KS · ~274 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Towanda, KS runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Towanda, KS: 3.1 TCR = 111% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Towanda, KS safety composite

Towanda, KS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Towanda, KS held a steady TCR band

Towanda, KS's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.9 in 2018 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.9 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Towanda, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #20/49
  • PHOTO Reeves Structures
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reeves Structures (0.0 TCR gap)

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Towanda, KS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Towanda, KS averages 3.1 TCR (111% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Towanda, KS TCR series: 2018=2.9 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Towanda, KS falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 49 Highway construction employers in Kansas.

Towanda, KS (274 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Towanda, KS
Towanda, KS (274 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Towanda, KS has more employees than the Highway construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.7 0.9 3 0 0
2023 3.1 2.3 3 1 0
2022 4.8 3.2 4 2 0
2021 3.6 0.9 3 1 0
2020 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2018 2.9 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KS · Towanda

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Towanda, 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 Reeves Structures 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCCI - Laredo 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones Bros. Dirt & Paving Contractors Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pavement Maintenance Systems, LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Accounts Group 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE EnerSys Hays 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olathe Ofc/Whse 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interim Healthcare of Kansas City 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Justin, TX 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roanoke, TX 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paradigm Services Inc. 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincoln, NE 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Cooper Air Freight Service, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast Dental Labs 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR East Norriton Store 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TASSCO 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marysville PDC 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peters Fruit Farms Inc. 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoprite of Berlin 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE GR-Oliver Healthcare Packaging 274 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.