Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing · Kentucky

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro

Middlesboro, KY · ~140 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro runs at 387% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro: 12.8 TCR = 387% of Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro safety composite

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−2.5

2021→2024

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro injury rate improved

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro's TCR fell 2.5 from 12.8 in 2021 to 10.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=12.8 · 2022=24.0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=10.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Middlesboro, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 387% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Polyethylene Technol…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polyethylene Technology, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro averages 12.8 TCR (387% of the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro TCR series: 2021=12.8 · 2022=24 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro falls in its industry

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact employers in Kentucky.

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro (140 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro
Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro (140 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Blue Diamond Industries Middlesboro has more employees than the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 10.3 5.6 11 0 0
2023 3.9 1.6 5 0 0
2022 24.0 15.4 27 1 0
2021 12.8 9.2 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · KY · Middlesboro

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 26 employers in Middlesboro, 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 Polyethylene Technology, Inc 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duraline 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Diamond Industries Aubrey 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allwire Inc 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clay Ingels Company, LLC. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Sprinkler Corporation (Company Totals) 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE LONDON KY PLANT 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Winchester 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield - Middlesboro Packaged 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats - Middlesboro 527 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 739 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR 739 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-120 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dundee Resort Development LLC DBA Arapahoe Basin Ski Area 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Recovering Hope Treatment Center Inc 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Coating Company LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Millsboro, DE - John J Williams Highway 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autumn Care of Shallotte 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 901/904 Cotton O'Neil Clinic 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pepper Source Rogers 140 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.