Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing · Kansas

Universal Products, Inc.

Goddard, KS · ~158 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Universal Products, Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Universal Products, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Products, Inc. safety composite

Universal Products, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Universal Products, Inc.: 0.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Universal Products, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 0.6 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326113 · Goddard, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P81
  • PHOTO PLASKOLITE MEMPHIS, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PLASKOLITE MEMPHIS, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kansas employers → · Look up another →

Universal Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Products, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Products, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Products, Inc. falls in its industry

303 Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Universal Products, Inc. (158 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Products, Inc.
Universal Products, Inc. (158 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Universal Products, Inc. has more employees than the Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlam median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 2.1 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 2.3 1.5 2 1 0
2021 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326113 · KS · Goddard

303 Vinyl and vinyl copolymer film and unlaminated sheet (except packaging) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Goddard, 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 PLASKOLITE MEMPHIS, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Film Products Company, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartech LLC - Salisbury 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCP Jax West Plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6874-68740010 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE KGP Lenexa 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Andersons Inc. - Overland Park 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scholfield Inc 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3103 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3103 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR 436-DC065 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nowak Construction Co., Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-TCR Bid Group Technologies 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenway Equipment Russellville 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Final Cleaning Solutions, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR B.H. Craig Construction Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kahler Grand Hotel 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solaris Senior Living of North Naples 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Treviicos Corporation 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC 158 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, 2016. 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.