Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing · Kentucky

Appalachian Tank, Inc

Pikeville, KY · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Appalachian Tank, Inc runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Appalachian Tank, Inc: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Appalachian Tank, Inc safety composite

Appalachian Tank, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Appalachian Tank, Inc: 2.5 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Appalachian Tank, Inc's TCR rose 3.9 from 2.5 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Pikeville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Morgan Olson LLC Lou…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morgan Olson LLC Loudon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Appalachian Tank, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Appalachian Tank, Inc averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Appalachian Tank, Inc TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Appalachian Tank, Inc falls in its industry

470 Tank bodies for trucks manufac establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Tank bodies for trucks manufac employers in Kentucky.

Appalachian Tank, Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Appalachian Tank, Inc
Appalachian Tank, Inc (49 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Appalachian Tank, Inc has fewer employees than the Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2024 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KY · Pikeville

470 Tank bodies for trucks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 71 employers in Pikeville, 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 Morgan Olson LLC Loudon 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Complete Truck Bodies Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Truck Bodies LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Contract Fabricators 4.5 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 PMC Main Hospital 2,209 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Zebulon 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik Caney 673 FTE
CITY-NEAR double kwik South 455 FTE
NAT-TCR Ben Franklin Transit 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Coast Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarendon County 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynapower Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Seed LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE FRH Dairy 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dave Evans Transports Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Tire Disposal 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: 2024, 2023. 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.