Family restaurants, full service · Kentucky

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown

Name: Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Elizabethtown, KY · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 3.0
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Family restaurants, full service workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown: 9.7 TCR = 324% of Family restaurants, full service BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown safety composite

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown: 4.5 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2018

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.5 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Elizabethtown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 324% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK #12/13
PHOTO Denny's 7743
BOOK 3y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denny's 7743 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown averages 9.7 TCR (324% of the Family restaurants, full service BLS benchmark).

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=15.9 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown falls in its industry

1,091 Family restaurants, full servi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Family restaurants, full servi employers in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown (43 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Blue Grass Golden Corral - Elizabethtown has fewer employees than the Family restaurants, full service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2018	8.9	4.4	4
2017	15.9	13.6	7
2016	4.5	2.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · KY · Elizabethtown

1,091 Family restaurants, full service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, 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	Denny's 7743	ROSEBURG, OR	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MARTINA RESTAURANT	MINNEAPOLIS, MN	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RED Primesteak	OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DBC Trading Post No 2 dba Buffalo Room Bar	GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO	9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cedar Creek WQTP	LOUISVILLE	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC	RICHMOND	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Swift Roofing of E'town, Inc	ELIZABETHTOWN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D & M Electric Inc	BOWLING GREEN	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hardin Memorial Hospital	Elizabethtown	2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Hardin	Elizabethtown	2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Metalsa	Elizabethtown	1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Etown	Elizabethtown	956 FTE
NAT-TCR	SPR Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corpus Christi (Txcor)	Corpus Christi, TX	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	AAA Technology and Specialties Co., Inc.	Houston, TX	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atlanta (G90)	Ellenwood, GA	9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5201	Memphis, TN	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ventura Entertainment Arizona - Dolphinaris	Scottsdale, AZ	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Entira Family Cliics - White Bear Lake - Bellaire	White Bear Lake, MN	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tulsa Beef	Tulsa, OK	43 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.