Industrial Gas Distribution · Kansas

Wichita West

Wichita, KS · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wichita West runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial Gas Distribution workplace, earning a grade C.

Wichita West: 2.1 TCR = 95% of Industrial Gas Distribution BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wichita West safety composite

Wichita West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Wichita West held a steady TCR band

Wichita West's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.7 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Wichita, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Hillyard Delaware Va…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hillyard Delaware Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wichita West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wichita West averages 2.1 TCR (95% of the Industrial Gas Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Wichita West TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.7 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Wichita West falls in its industry

766 Industrial Gas Distribution establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Industrial Gas Distribution employers in Kansas.

Wichita West (24 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wichita West
Wichita West (24 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Wichita West has fewer employees than the Industrial Gas Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.7 3.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · KS · Wichita

766 Industrial Gas Distribution 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 Hillyard Delaware Valley 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. Columbia 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Sioux Falls 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doe and Ingalls of MA Operating LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #1 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Feedlot Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crop Service Center Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag Connection Sales, Inc 24 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 D80 Sacramento 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Steiner Industries Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oroville Hospital Post Acute Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PCM Landscape 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shed World LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ontario Exteriors,Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wright Home 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seaboard Foods Lp Oklahoma Wean Feeder 24 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.