TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.0 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Kansas workplace safety
How 5,228 OSHA-reporting employers across Kansas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 4,630 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 5,228
- Employers
- 5.0
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 89,790
- Injuries (all)
- 79
- Fatalities (all)
Kansas vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
5,228 31st of 54 higher than 23 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Kansas's 4,630 rated reporting employers average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.9 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.0
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 4,630
- rated employers
- 5,228
- all reporting employers
- 89,790
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 5,228 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 16% B · 15% C · 28% D · 22% F · 20%
20% of Kansas's reporting establishments earn an F and 16% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Kansas ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRKansas's average TCR of 5.0 is lower than 68% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Kansas is #18 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 4,630-employer subset), it's #41 of 54, a 23-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Kansas Workplaces Compare
Kansas hosts 5,228 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Kansas cohort, workers have logged 89,790 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 4,630 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 79 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Kansas, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Kansas, by injury rate
Page 70 of 105| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altium Packaging - Wichita | Wichita | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | B | 2.3 |
| Corporate Lenexa | Lenexa | 334513 Instruments and Relat | B | 2.3 |
| SPSCI Kansas City Service Center | New Century | Metal products (e.g., bars, | C | 2.3 |
| Crown Distributors - Salina | Salina | Beverages, alcoholic (except | C | 2.3 |
| Wm 5791 | Pittsburg | - | B | 2.3 |
| The Bariatric Center of Kansas City, LLC | Lenexa | - | B | 2.3 |
| Lakemary Center, Inc. (Olathe) | Olathe | Group homes, intellectual an | B | 2.3 |
| 430 - Kc Olathe | Olathe | Industrial Launderers | C | 2.3 |
| Ovation Cabinetry, Inc. | Salina | Cabinets, kitchen (except fr | B | 2.2 |
| Kaw Valley Companies, Inc. | Kansas City | Sand (except industrial) mer | C | 2.2 |
| 00001075 Ict - 075 Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower I | Wichita | Other Airport Operations | A | 2.2 |
| Eagle Railcar Services - Junction City, Kansas LLC | Junction City | Locomotive and rail car repa | A | 2.2 |
| Ihop 5318 | Topeka | Full service restaurants | B | 2.2 |
| Evonik jayhawk fine chemicals corp. | Galena | Carbon organic compounds, no | B | 2.2 |
| Ottawa | Ottawa | Fabricated structural metal | B | 2.2 |
| SciptPro USA | Mission | Medical equipment merchant w | C | 2.2 |
| Pepsi Cola Bottling Co of Marysville Inc | Marysville | Beverage concentrates mercha | C | 2.2 |
| Ethan Allen Retail, Inc. - Overland Park KS | Overland Park | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | B | 2.2 |
| 1310 Salina | Salina | Department Store | B | 2.2 |
| Core Carrier Corporation | Kansas City | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.2 |
| Warehouse 21/HQ | Edgerton | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.2 |
| Pssi / National Beef Packing Company LLC - Liberal | Liberal | Building Maintenance Service | A | 2.2 |
| Pssi / Cargill Incorporated - Dodge City | Dodge City | Building Maintenance Service | A | 2.2 |
| Mje, LLC | Montezuma | Backfilling, construction | B | 2.2 |
| Pittsburg Plant | Pittsburg | Print shops, flexographic (e | B | 2.2 |
| Warehouse Inc | Hays | Automobile accessories (exce | C | 2.2 |
| Home Office | Lenexa | Sporting goods and supplies | C | 2.2 |
| VMC, Fort Scott | Ft. Scott | General-line groceries merch | C | 2.2 |
| Ks450-Yapi-Johnson County, Ks450 | Olathe | CHILD AND YOUTH SERVICES | B | 2.2 |
| Manhattan Sc | Manhattan | Natural Gas Utility | D | 2.2 |
| Ruskin Company | Parsons | Sheet Metal Manufacturing | B | 2.2 |
| Mid Kansas Cooperative - Haven | Haven | Grain elevators merchant who | C | 2.2 |
| Flint Hills bev - Manhattan | Manhattan | Beer and Ale Merchant Wholes | C | 2.2 |
| Don Hattan Derby | Derby | Used car dealers | B | 2.2 |
| QSI Emporia | Emporia | Building cleaning services, | A | 2.2 |
| Good Samaritan Society - Ellis | Ellis | Nursing homes | A | 2.2 |
| Oak Tree Inn and Penny's Diner - 133 | Marysville | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.2 |
| Golden Corral 590 | Gerden City | Buffet eating places | B | 2.2 |
| Crown Lift Trucks Wichita | Wichita | Forklift repair and maintena | C | 2.2 |
| Builders Stone & Masonry | Olathe | Chimney, brick, block or sto | B | 2.2 |
| Salina Plant - West | Salina | PL | B | 2.2 |
| National Beef Packing Company | Liberal | Beef carcasses, half carcass | B | 2.2 |
| Lawrence Service Center | Lawrence | Electric Power Distribution | D | 2.2 |
| SVH HR Administration Building | Topeka | Office building construction | B | 2.2 |
| J & J Powerline Contractors Inc. | Dodge City | Construction management, pow | B | 2.2 |
| Lenexa Store | Lenexa | HVAC Distribution | B | 2.2 |
| Bob Florence Contractor Inc | Topeka | Drywall contractors | B | 2.2 |
| L.G. Barcus and Sons, Inc. | Kansas City | Piling (i.e., bored, cast-in | B | 2.2 |
| ICL (formerly ICL Performance Products LP) - Lawrence | Lawrence | Sodium inorganic compounds, | B | 2.2 |
| Kansas Location | Kansas City | Cleaning and descaling metal | B | 2.2 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Kansas: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.0 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (5,228 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.