Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · Kansas

Vortex Valves

Salina, KS · ~281 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vortex Valves runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vortex Valves: 3.9 TCR = 119% of Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vortex Valves safety composite

Vortex Valves scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Vortex Valves: 2.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.08× in 2019

Vortex Valves's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.6 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Salina, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Griswold Industries
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~281 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Griswold Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vortex Valves in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vortex Valves averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vortex Valves TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=5.6 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Vortex Valves falls in its industry

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Ball valves, industrial-type, employers in Kansas.

Vortex Valves (281 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vortex Valves
Vortex Valves (281 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Vortex Valves has more employees than the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 3.5 0.3 10 1 0
2017 5.6 4.9 14 1 0
2016 2.6 0.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · KS · Salina

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 136 employers in Salina, 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 Griswold Industries 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Valve Company Inc. - Prairie du Sac 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Valve LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VanAire 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 2428 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE 486 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0369 - OVERLAND PARK KS WHSE 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herff Jones Yearbook Division 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER 1,959 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Francis Ministries 1,426 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALINA PLANT 1,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALINA PLANT - EAST 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Falcon Contracting Company Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Reliable 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sofidel America 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Healthcare 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St Augustine Dental 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daytona Beach Medical 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worzalla Publishing 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE GWIT - Main Janitorial & Hospital 281 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: 2019, 2017, 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.