Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing · Kentucky

BLAZE Products

Name: BLAZE Products Workplace Safety Data
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Shelbyville, KY · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

BLAZE Products runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

BLAZE Products: 7.3 TCR = 220% of Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BLAZE Products safety composite

BLAZE Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

BLAZE Products: 0.0 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2019

BLAZE Products's TCR rose 12.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Shelbyville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 220% of ind

DART 6.1 DART
RANK P5
PHOTO Fenzi AGT USA, LLC.
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fenzi AGT USA, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.3
Fenzi AGT USA,

7.3
Solomon Colors

7.1
Heubach LTD

6.9
Sun Chemical C

6.7

What this shows BLAZE Products averages 7.3 TCR (220% of the Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

BLAZE Products TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.7 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where BLAZE Products falls in its industry

75 Color pigments, inorganic (exc establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

BLAZE Products (24 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

BLAZE Products has fewer employees than the Color pigments, inorganic (except bone b 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
2019	12.2	6.1	2
2018	6.2	6.2	1
2017	10.7	0.0	2
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · KY · Shelbyville

75 Color pigments, inorganic (except bone black, carbon black, lamp black), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 73 employers in Shelbyville, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fenzi AGT USA, LLC.	DOWNINGTOWN, PA	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Solomon Colors, Inc Rialto	RIALTO, CA	7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Heubach LTD	FAIRLESS HILLS, PA	6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sun Chemical Color Materials	CINCINNATI, OH	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ammon Nursery	BURLINGTON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	john wayne	WEST LIBERTY	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Elizabethtown Storeroom & Service Center	ELIZABETHTOWN	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lexington Meter Department	LEXINGTON	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Martinrea Heavy Stamping	Shelbyville	770 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Martinrea Heavy Stamping - Shelbyville	Shelbyville	437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KACI	Shelbyville	370 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Katayama American Company Inc.	Shelbyville	346 FTE
NAT-TCR	Les Schwab Tire Center-Bellevue	Bellevue, WA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	2500 Bates Avenue	Concord, CA	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Flowers Hospital	Dothan, AL	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	TSMM Management LLC dba Primrose of Mansfield	Mansfield, OH	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Hudson River Tractor Company - Chatham	Chatham, NY	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	616 East 18th Street, Prof Suite	Brooklyn, NY	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mountain View Market	Las Cruces, NM	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Holiday Inn Express & Suites	Florence, AL	24 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.