Livestock Merchant Wholesalers · Kentucky

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany

Albany, KY · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany runs at 518% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Livestock Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany: 11.4 TCR = 518% of Livestock Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany safety composite

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 of Albany: 15.8 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany's TCR rose 2.7 from 15.8 in 2022 to 18.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424520 · Albany, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 518% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Producers Livestock …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Producers Livestock Marketing Association - Jerome Branch (0.2 TCR gap)

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Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany averages 11.4 TCR (518% 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 of Albany TCR series: 2022=15.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany falls in its industry

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #3 safest of 10 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany (25 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 of Albany
Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany (25 employees, TCR 11.4) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Blue Grass Stockyards of Albany has fewer 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 18.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 15.8 7.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · KY · Albany

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 8 employers in Albany, 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 Producers Livestock Marketing Association - Jerome Branch 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPI- Bowling Green 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Producers, Inc. - Bucyrus 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murdock Farms Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lane's End Farm Oak Tree Division 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henderson Municipal Gas 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wescott Construction 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albany Plant 1,193 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center at Albany 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR LP Albany, LLC---Clinton 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowboy Charcoal - Albany 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Centric Pipe - Bossier City 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pines at Utica 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Earlwood 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Winds at Mattern Orchard by New Perspective 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cherry Springs Village 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGriff Birmingham Commercial 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Home City Ice Company Delaware 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Machinery Systems, LLC 25 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.