Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) · Kentucky

AWS of Lexington

Lexington, KY · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AWS of Lexington runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) workplace, earning a grade D.

AWS of Lexington: 4.3 TCR = 165% of Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AWS of Lexington safety composite

AWS of Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

AWS of Lexington: 4.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2023

AWS of Lexington's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.0 in 2021 to 6.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 165% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Sandpoint Landfill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sandpoint Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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AWS of Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AWS of Lexington averages 4.3 TCR (165% of the Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) BLS benchmark).

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

AWS of Lexington TCR series: 2021=4 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=6 · BLS 2.6

Where AWS of Lexington falls in its industry

288 Dumps, nonhazardous solid wast establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Dumps, nonhazardous solid wast employers in Kentucky.

AWS of Lexington (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AWS of Lexington
AWS of Lexington (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

AWS of Lexington has more employees than the Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2022 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · KY · Lexington

288 Dumps, nonhazardous solid waste (e.g., trash) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 Sandpoint Landfill 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03895 - Naples Sanitary Landfill 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimble Recycling and Disposal, Inc. Dover 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Juan Transfer Station 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pineville 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Apartment Homes 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips Brothers Construction 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berkel Piling Louisville 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR 10 Glenshaw St Bldg B,Orangeburg NY 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Reynolds High School 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D & D Performance LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avalign Thortex 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE E-J Energy 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kyocera SENCO Sales 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie View Management, Inc. - Fayette 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Bethune Cookman Fm Admin 62 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.