Employer · Kansas

Wm 242

Paola, KS · ~228 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wm 242 runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Wm 242: 7.3 TCR = 213% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wm 242 safety composite

Wm 242 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2023→2024

Wm 242 injury rate improved

Wm 242's TCR fell 1.3 from 7.9 in 2023 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.9 · 2024=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452910 · Paola, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 213% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #117/134
  • PHOTO WM 2672
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 2672 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wm 242 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wm 242 averages 7.3 TCR (213% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Wm 242 TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Wm 242 falls in its industry

8,658 industry establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 134 industry employers in Kansas.

Wm 242 (228 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wm 242
Wm 242 (228 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 245 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Wm 242 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 6.6 6.0 11 1 0
2023 7.9 5.8 12 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452910 · KS · Paola

8,658 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 21 employers in Paola, 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 WM 2672 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 1594 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 8173 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2923 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Viega LLC McPherson KS - Manufacturing 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hi Lo Industries 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 111 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAFC Biosciences 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakemary Center, Inc. (Paola) 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR 242 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doherty Steel 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Forge Engineered Systems 154 FTE
NAT-TCR 1241 Val2 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Greensburg 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-State Beverage Co 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mugu Ranch Partnership 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Villas at Sunny Acres 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Antioch 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creekside Rehabilitation and Behavioral Health 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suffolk 228 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. 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.