General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Kansas

VMC, Fort Scott

Ft. Scott, KS · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VMC, Fort Scott runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

VMC, Fort Scott: 2.2 TCR = 101% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VMC, Fort Scott safety composite

VMC, Fort Scott scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2022→2024

VMC, Fort Scott injury rate improved

VMC, Fort Scott's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Ft. Scott, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 101% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO Spokane WA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spokane WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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VMC, Fort Scott in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VMC, Fort Scott averages 2.2 TCR (101% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

VMC, Fort Scott TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where VMC, Fort Scott falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

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 14 General-line groceries merchan employers in Kansas.

VMC, Fort Scott (100 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate VMC, Fort Scott
VMC, Fort Scott (100 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

VMC, Fort Scott has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · KS · Ft. Scott

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Spokane WA 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coppell 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHWEST 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cookeville 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kansas City, MO - Topeka, KS HVAC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE US102: Kansas City 332 - SG 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE DH Pace Door Services - Special Markets 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE 04888300-00W002 BIRNER KANSAS LLC-BIRNER KANSAS LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR VMC - FORT SCOTT 153 FTE
NAT-TCR 731-PL001 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Seneca Street Crew Location-Ny04 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Spring Arbor Cottage of Richmond 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10696 One Wall Street 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Break Thru Enterprises, INC 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polaris Battle Ground 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1752 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Myojo U.S.A., Inc. 100 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.