Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Kansas

Ulysses Feedyard

Ulysses, KS · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ulysses Feedyard runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Ulysses Feedyard: 4.9 TCR = 108% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ulysses Feedyard safety composite

Ulysses Feedyard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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)
D 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Ulysses Feedyard injury rate improved

Ulysses Feedyard's TCR fell 1.6 from 5.7 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Ulysses, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 108% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #16/50
  • PHOTO Champion Feeders LLC…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Champion Feeders LLC dba Hitch 1 Feedyard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ulysses Feedyard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ulysses Feedyard averages 4.9 TCR (108% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Ulysses Feedyard TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Ulysses Feedyard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 50 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Kansas.

Ulysses Feedyard (55 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ulysses Feedyard
Ulysses Feedyard (55 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Ulysses Feedyard has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2024 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2023 5.7 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Ulysses

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 16 employers in Ulysses, 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 Champion Feeders LLC dba Hitch 1 Feedyard 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasco Farm - Burbank 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grant County Feeders 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Beef 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Warrior, Inc 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland Service Cener 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zernco, INC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2202 - Benton, KS 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Kansas Irrigation, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grant County Feeders 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Ilpei - Peoria 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tndye - Dyersburg 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Plant 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Plating, Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jamestown Ny 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB Arbors at Ridges 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swisher County Cattle Company 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cafnn - Ups Mail Innovations - Rpf 01 55 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. 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.