Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing · Kentucky

Apel International Inc.

Louisville, KY · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apel International Inc. runs at 326% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Apel International Inc.: 10.8 TCR = 326% of Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apel International Inc. safety composite

Apel International Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−19.3

2017→2022

Apel International Inc. injury rate improved

Apel International Inc.'s TCR fell 19.3 from 24.8 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 24.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=24.8 · 2020=2.0 · 2022=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333999 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 326% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P2
  • PHOTO Gasbarre Products - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gasbarre Products - Press Division (0.2 TCR gap)

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Apel International Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apel International Inc. averages 10.8 TCR (326% of the Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apel International Inc. TCR series: 2017=24.8 · 2020=2 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Apel International Inc. falls in its industry

242 Filters, industrial and genera establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Apel International Inc. (96 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Apel International Inc.
Apel International Inc. (96 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Apel International Inc. has more employees than the Filters, industrial and general line (ex median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 5.5 3.1 7 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 24.8 14.2 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333999 · KY · Louisville

242 Filters, industrial and general line (except internal combustion engine, warm air furnace), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 Gasbarre Products - Press Division 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centrifugal Services 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oil-Rite Corporation 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bailey Specialty Cranes & Aerials, LLC 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Domino's Supply Chain Center- Kentucky 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Printograph, Inc., dba GotPrint.com - Kentucky 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC Murray Division 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coroplast LLC 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR 050156-Altadena Po 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 485145-Liberty Hill Po 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 174031-Indianapolis Mpa 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZNOR 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Civic Center Health and Rehabilitation Center, LLC 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Picoma Industries 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mpls PN Clinic 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rome Operating - 224 Holmes Rd Rome 96 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.