Livestock Merchant Wholesalers · Kentucky

Blue Grass Stockyards East

Mt. Sterling, KY · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Grass Stockyards East runs at 806% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Livestock Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Grass Stockyards East: 17.7 TCR = 806% of Livestock Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Grass Stockyards East safety composite

Blue Grass Stockyards East scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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 Stockyards East: 8.7 → 22.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Blue Grass Stockyards East's TCR rose 14.1 from 8.7 in 2022 to 22.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424520 · Mt. Sterling, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 806% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO United Producers, In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Producers, Inc. - Gallipolis (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blue Grass Stockyards East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Grass Stockyards East averages 17.7 TCR (806% of the Livestock Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Grass Stockyards East TCR series: 2022=8.7 · 2023=21.7 · 2024=22.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Grass Stockyards East falls in its industry

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Stockyards East (28 employees, TCR 17.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 050100150200250 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Grass Stockyards East
Blue Grass Stockyards East (28 employees, TCR 17.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Blue Grass Stockyards East has more employees than the Livestock Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.9. 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 22.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 21.7 21.7 1 0 0
2022 8.7 8.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · KY · Mt. Sterling

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 17 employers in Mt. Sterling, 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 United Producers, Inc. - Gallipolis 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Livestock Center 19.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Campbellsville 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Berea Farm LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandywine Explosives & Supply Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU - Danville 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kyosan Denso Manufacturing Kentucky 681 FTE
CITY-NEAR KDMK 675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aisan Industry Kentucky 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR 16280001-162801 ST JOSEPH MT STERLING 278 FTE
NAT-TCR High Road Services LLC 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Freshwater Stone & Brickwork, Inc. 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Casra - San Rafael Center 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company Orlando 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carton Brewing 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voyager Industries, Inc.- Pine River 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5300-Drc-Presque Isle 28 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. 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.