Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Kansas

Walther Farms KS

Garden City, KS · ~9 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walther Farms KS runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade A.

Walther Farms KS: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walther Farms KS safety composite

Walther Farms KS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Walther Farms KS: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Walther Farms KS's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Garden City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Becker
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~9 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Becker (0.1 TCR gap)

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Walther Farms KS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walther Farms KS averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Walther Farms KS TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Walther Farms KS falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Walther Farms KS (9 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Walther Farms KS
Walther Farms KS (9 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Walther Farms KS has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · KS · Garden City

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Becker 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WPB 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms AZ 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knutzen Farms LP 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WaKeeney 9 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best One of Kansas - Great Bend Retreading 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City McCormick Whse 10 FTE
STATE-SIZE SouthernCarlson - Kansas City KS 8 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Jamestown Store 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepsi Bottling of La Grande 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites Happy Valley 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Roofing Company, Inc 1.7 TCR

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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.