Blending animal feed · Kentucky

Alltech Nicholasville

Nicholasville, KY · ~356 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alltech Nicholasville runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Blending animal feed workplace, earning a grade C.

Alltech Nicholasville: 3.5 TCR = 89% of Blending animal feed BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alltech Nicholasville safety composite

Alltech Nicholasville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Alltech Nicholasville: 1.8 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2021

Alltech Nicholasville's TCR rose 4.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Nicholasville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 89% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO Van Beek Natural Sci…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~356 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Van Beek Natural Science, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alltech Nicholasville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alltech Nicholasville averages 3.5 TCR (89% of the Blending animal feed BLS benchmark).

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

Alltech Nicholasville TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Alltech Nicholasville falls in its industry

756 Blending animal feed establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 23 Blending animal feed employers in Kentucky.

Alltech Nicholasville (356 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Alltech Nicholasville
Alltech Nicholasville (356 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Alltech Nicholasville has more employees than the Blending animal feed median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.5 6.0 11 2 0
2020 4.4 4.4 6 3 0
2019 2.9 1.3 12 1 0
2018 1.9 1.7 8 1 0
2016 1.8 1.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · KY · Nicholasville

756 Blending animal feed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 87 employers in Nicholasville, 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 Van Beek Natural Science, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fargo Wildlife 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Feed & Seed Co. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxwell Milling of Indiana 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE K043-M001 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raytheon_Louisville_KY 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC 356 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1259 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Jessamine County 3,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUMBERLAND 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. J. Corman Switching Company, LLC 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR McKehnie Vehicle Components 427 FTE
NAT-TCR CN - Broomall 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Cherry Factory and Fulfillment 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Jackson 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 140 Houston Gallery 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GLOBALFOUNDRIES Santa Clara 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE W A Parish 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insulations, LLC. Baton Rouge Operations 356 FTE
NAT-SIZE Birchaven Village 356 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.