Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Kansas

Ward Feed Yard

Larned, KS · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Feed Yard runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade D.

Ward Feed Yard: 5.9 TCR = 131% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Feed Yard safety composite

Ward Feed Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Ward Feed Yard: 1.5 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Ward Feed Yard's TCR rose 8.9 from 1.5 in 2016 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Larned, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #24/50
  • PHOTO Green Plains Cattle …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Plains Cattle Company, LLC- Leoti (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Feed Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Feed Yard averages 5.9 TCR (131% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Feed Yard TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=5.8 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=5.9 · 2021=7.3 · 2023=6 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Ward Feed Yard falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 50 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Kansas.

Ward Feed Yard (63 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ward Feed Yard
Ward Feed Yard (63 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Ward Feed Yard has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 10.4 9.1 8 0 0
2023 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2021 7.3 2.9 5 0 0
2019 5.9 4.5 4 0 0
2018 4.4 1.4 3 0 0
2017 5.8 4.3 4 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · KS · Larned

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 9 employers in Larned, 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 Green Plains Cattle Company, LLC- Leoti 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Valle Sabbia, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - kismet 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cri Feeders of Guymon, LLC 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant County Feeders 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE DB2 Services Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas Electric, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davis Electric, Inc. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pawnee Valley Community Hospital 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT LARNED STATE HOSPITAL FOOD 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversicare of Larned 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00009 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Cavallero Heating & Air Cond., Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Briarwood Operator LLC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR W1 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR All Other Employees - Other Government Support 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Strange Bros Grading Co Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hellebusch Tool & Die, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill International Trucks 84 PA 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rds Machine, LLC 63 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.