Grocery stores · Kansas

Wakeeney Heartland Foods

Wakeeney, KS · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wakeeney Heartland Foods runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Wakeeney Heartland Foods: 14.7 TCR = 434% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wakeeney Heartland Foods safety composite

Wakeeney Heartland Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Wakeeney Heartland Foods: 5.1 → 24.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 24.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2018

Wakeeney Heartland Foods's TCR rose 19.1 from 5.1 in 2016 to 24.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Wakeeney, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 434% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #158/159
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0136 Va…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0136 Vancouver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wakeeney Heartland Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wakeeney Heartland Foods averages 14.7 TCR (434% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Wakeeney Heartland Foods TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=15 · 2018=24.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Wakeeney Heartland Foods falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #158 safest of 159 Grocery stores employers in Kansas.

Wakeeney Heartland Foods (32 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wakeeney Heartland Foods
Wakeeney Heartland Foods (32 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Wakeeney Heartland Foods has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 24.1 4.8 5 0 0
2017 15.0 0.0 3 0 0
2016 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KS · Wakeeney

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Wakeeney, 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 Trader Joe's 0136 Vancouver 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth-Tehama Rdg #137 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pete's Fresh Market #12 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0202 Morgan Hill 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Beef LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP CELL 6 LOADOUT 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHARP BROS SEED CO 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pishny Restoration Services 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Cooperative Electric Assoc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malay's Market 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR 31773 22 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-728-Williams Sonoma 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Party Rentals, LLC 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JAS Design Build Inc 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Polymet 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Macon Service Center 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE SACS 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&D Electric of Hudson Valley, Inc. 32 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.