Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing · Missouri

Variform Kearney Plant

Kearney, MO · ~184 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Variform Kearney Plant runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Variform Kearney Plant: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Variform Kearney Plant safety composite

Variform Kearney Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−2.4

2022→2023

Variform Kearney Plant injury rate improved

Variform Kearney Plant's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.0 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.0 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Kearney, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #22/64
  • PHOTO Mitchell Plastics St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights (0.0 TCR gap)

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Variform Kearney Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Variform Kearney Plant averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Variform Kearney Plant TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Variform Kearney Plant falls in its industry

2,838 Building materials (e.g., fasc establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 64 Building materials (e.g., fasc employers in Missouri.

Variform Kearney Plant (184 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Variform Kearney Plant
Variform Kearney Plant (184 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Variform Kearney Plant has more employees than the Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels 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
2023 1.5 1.0 2 1 0
2022 4.0 3.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MO · Kearney

2,838 Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 13 employers in Kearney, MO · 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 Mitchell Plastics Sterling Heights 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR VISCOFAN USA INC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atrium Windows & Door 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dimex 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4CL - MO MGO Gas 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millstone Weber, LLC. - Total Company 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tnemec Company NKC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW Aluminum - St. Louis 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mr. Dell's Foods, LLC 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platte-Clay Electric Co-op 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platte/Clay Electric Cooperative 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Hcb Operating Hqtrs(Hcb2)-Ny88 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City Club at River Ranch 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay City Mechanical Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation - Elkton 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BT Norcross 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindsay Automotive Inc dba Lindsay Honda 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conshohocken 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE JP Boden Services 184 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.