Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics · Kentucky

Academy Plant

Pine Knot, KY · ~155 workers · 2 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

Academy Plant runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade D.

Academy Plant: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Academy Plant safety composite

Academy Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Academy Plant: 1.1 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2021

Academy Plant's TCR rose 10.3 from 1.1 in 2020 to 11.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Pine Knot, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Tarpstop Taylor
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tarpstop Taylor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Academy Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Academy Plant averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Academy Plant TCR series: 2020=1.1 · 2021=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Academy Plant falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Kentucky.

Academy Plant (155 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Academy Plant
Academy Plant (155 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Academy Plant has more employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2021 11.4 7.1 16 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · KY · Pine Knot

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 4 employers in Pine Knot, 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 Tarpstop Taylor 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchor Industries 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rush Company Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Tarp Inc 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knights Mechanical LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letica-Kentucky 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHUHATSU 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE LP Owensboro II, LLC--Hillcrest 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Academy Manufacturing 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP Pine Knot, LLC--McCreary Co 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR McCreary County Hardwoods, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Keihin Thermal Technology of America 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 42967 - Oak Forest Fac 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wenner Bakery -Bayport Facility 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Bridgewater State Flynn Dining 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MIA-SAFS 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Binghamton Univ-Collegiate Ctr 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neuromuscular Specialty Center 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.O.Smith North America Corp 155 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: 2021, 2020. 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.