Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants · Kentucky

Beneke Wire Company

Louisville, KY · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beneke Wire Company runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Beneke Wire Company: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beneke Wire Company safety composite

Beneke Wire Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Beneke Wire Company: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Beneke Wire Company's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Hydro Elkhart
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydro Elkhart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beneke Wire Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beneke Wire Company averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Beneke Wire Company TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Beneke Wire Company falls in its industry

204 Wire, bare, made in aluminum w establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Wire, bare, made in aluminum w employers in Kentucky.

Beneke Wire Company (44 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Beneke Wire Company
Beneke Wire Company (44 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Beneke Wire Company has fewer employees than the Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · KY · Louisville

204 Wire, bare, made in aluminum wire drawing plants 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 Hydro Elkhart 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Gainesville 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonnell Aluminum 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro - Gainesville 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DMK Development Group 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC630 - Louisville, KY 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. J. Corman Signaling Company, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jett's Specialty Contracting, LLC 44 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 Carlyle Johnson Machine Co LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CC Pollen Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Airfoils 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxwell's Backhoe Inc DBA MBI Excavation 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advanced Interconnect Manufacturing, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE M Squared LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navarro County Electric Cooperative, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE American House - Oak Park 44 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, 2022, 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.