Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing · Kentucky

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division

Florence, KY · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division safety composite

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division: 6.0 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2022

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division's TCR rose 1.6 from 6.0 in 2019 to 7.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327110 · Florence, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO Clear Creek Valley P…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clear Creek Valley Plant (0.2 TCR gap)

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A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=5.4 · 2022=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division falls in its industry

109 Porcelain, chemical, manufactu establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division (49 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division
A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division (49 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.0

A. O. Smith Corporation, Apcom Protective Coatings Division has fewer employees than the Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 7.6 3.8 4 0 0
2020 5.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 6.0 4.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327110 · KY · Florence

109 Porcelain, chemical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 181 employers in Florence, 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 Clear Creek Valley Plant 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M Cubed Delaware 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1-Kitchen & Bath Wisconsin Vitreous 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Ceramics dba Grey Fox Pottery 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fleming-Mason Energy Cooperative 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Kentucky Water District Ft Thomas Treatment Plant 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE System Operations Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parco Constructors Group, LLC 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Healthcare Florence 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil CVG 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, LLC 687 FTE
CITY-NEAR AS - Automotive Steering 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Walashek Industrial and Marine, National City 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington Square of Elmhurst 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TJ Beall Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Glendale Ready Mix 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE TAC Air - LIT 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Bean & Produce 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE PK Aliquippa Plant 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Machinery & Tool Steel Company 49 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.