Staffing · Kentucky

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington

Lexington, KY · ~236 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Staffing workplace, earning a grade F.

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington: 10.5 TCR = 402% of Staffing BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington safety composite

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington: 10.1 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2023

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington's TCR rose 0.8 from 10.1 in 2019 to 10.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561320 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 402% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Bemidji Location
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~236 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bemidji Location (0.1 TCR gap)

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8020285-Link Belt/Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 8020285-Link Belt/Lexington averages 10.5 TCR (402% of the Staffing BLS benchmark).

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

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington TCR series: 2019=10.1 · 2023=10.8 · BLS 2.6

Where 8020285-Link Belt/Lexington falls in its industry

652 Staffing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Staffing employers in Kentucky.

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington (236 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 8020285-Link Belt/Lexington
8020285-Link Belt/Lexington (236 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 2.6

8020285-Link Belt/Lexington has more employees than the Staffing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2023 10.8 10.8 6 0 0
2019 10.1 4.6 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561320 · KY · Lexington

652 Staffing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 Bemidji Location 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8027590 TG Missouri 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interim HealthCare Of Lake Superior 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Labor Source of South Carolina 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alltech Inc. 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spurlock Generating Station 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borden Dairy Company LLC (London, KY) 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hennegan Company 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR CentraState Medical Center 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4223-M0100 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ports America Chesapeake - Baltimore Shops 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Applewood Estates 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE northwest Mechanical 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPIC Piping - San Marcos 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Research Drive 236 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: 2023, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.