Underground mining machinery manufacturing · Kentucky

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp.

Lexington, KY · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Underground mining machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp.: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Underground mining machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. safety composite

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.6

2019→2024

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. injury rate improved

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp.'s TCR fell 7.6 from 7.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.6 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333131 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Townley Engineering
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Townley Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Underground mining machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. TCR series: 2019=7.6 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. falls in its industry

105 Underground mining machinery m establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Underground mining machinery m employers in Kentucky.

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. (30 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp.
Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. (30 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Birtley Industrial Equipment Corp. has fewer employees than the Underground mining machinery manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.7 6.5 4 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.8 8.8 2 0 0
2019 7.6 5.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333131 · KY · Lexington

105 Underground mining machinery manufacturing 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 Townley Engineering 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Numa Tool Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Industries- Pekin 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR G Lopes Construction Inc 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Brothers Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 60 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU Magnolia Compressor Station 30 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 Osborne Electric Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CAN030 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosenbauer Aerials LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 215BIN 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Technologies Group 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria Day Services 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntsman East Lansing Site 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawton Mechanical Contractors 30 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.