Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Kansas

Water St

Wichita, KS · ~222 workers · 2 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

Water St runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Water St: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water St safety composite

Water St scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2022→2023

Water St injury rate improved

Water St's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.2 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.2 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Berry Global Films I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berry Global Films Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water St in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water St averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Water St TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Water St falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Bags, plastics film, single wa employers in Kansas.

Water St (222 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Water St
Water St (222 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Water St has more employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 3.5 2.6 3 1 0
2022 4.2 2.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · KS · Wichita

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 Berry Global Films Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARSHALL 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR H. Risch, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Poly 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 436-DC436 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiland Dairy Kansas City 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lenexa SAFC 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exacta Aerospace 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnson Matthey- ENR 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Bethalto 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR County Market #212 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Wire - Kenwood 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Materials : Woodridge 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE FTWN One Summit Square 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Star Brands Operations 222 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: 2023, 2022. 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.