Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Kansas

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St.

Galena, KS · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St.: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. safety composite

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−7.2

2022→2024

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. injury rate improved

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St.'s TCR fell 7.2 from 7.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Galena, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Taylor Commercial Fo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Commercial Foodservice, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 13 Food choppers, grinders, mixer employers in Kansas.

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. (39 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St.
Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. (39 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. - 616 W 7th St. has fewer employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · KS · Galena

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Galena, 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 Taylor Commercial Foodservice, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Bakery Kitchen Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heat and Control Lititz 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birko Corp Olathe Office 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1550 W Road 70 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beefland Feed Yard 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrence Service Center 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jayhawk Fine Chemicals 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evonik jayhawk fine chemicals corp. 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Republic Services of Galena 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4393 Galena 57 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Fire Protection Systems, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BlueTriton Brands Houston 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Management of Wellington Bay, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Health 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid-Continental Restoration Co., Inc. South Dakota 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollister Gateway Hotel LP 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roy Metal Finishing RMF2 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Colusa 39 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.