Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing · Kansas

Westerman-Garden City

Garden City, KS · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westerman-Garden City runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Westerman-Garden City: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westerman-Garden City safety composite

Westerman-Garden City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Westerman-Garden City: 1.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2018

Westerman-Garden City's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.0 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Garden City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Patrick Fabricating …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Patrick Fabricating and Welding, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westerman-Garden City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westerman-Garden City averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Westerman-Garden City TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Westerman-Garden City falls in its industry

449 Fabricated Metal Product Manuf establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 9 Fabricated Metal Product Manuf employers in Kansas.

Westerman-Garden City (85 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Westerman-Garden City
Westerman-Garden City (85 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Westerman-Garden City has more employees than the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.6 1.1 4 0 0
2017 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · KS · Garden City

449 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Patrick Fabricating and Welding, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warrior Racing/Indian Creek Fabricators 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenfield Research, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.P. Fabricating Co., Inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Linder & Associates, Inc. 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway, LLC - Holly Frontier Refinery - El Dorado 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Inc. CASCNA 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City 85 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 Life Care Center of Copper Basin 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Letica Freightlines 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago II 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Faurecia - Fraser 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE KTL 53031 Indianapolis 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Argyle 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Britco USA 1 85 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. 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.