Livestock Merchant Wholesalers · Kentucky

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington

Lexington, KY · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington runs at 570% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Livestock Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington: 12.5 TCR = 570% of Livestock Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington safety composite

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 12.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 Lexington: 6.4 → 19.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington's TCR rose 13.0 from 6.4 in 2022 to 19.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 570% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO United Producers, In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

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

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Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington averages 12.5 TCR (570% 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 Lexington TCR series: 2022=6.4 · 2023=11.7 · 2024=19.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington falls in its industry

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #5 safest of 10 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington (46 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 Lexington
Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington (46 employees, TCR 12.5) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington 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 19.5 6.5 3 0 0
2023 11.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · KY · Lexington

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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. - Bucyrus 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPI-Owenton 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPI- Bowling Green 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Producers Livestock Marketing Association - Jerome Branch 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aulbach Land USA, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - Green Station 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Electrical Contractors 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & B TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT SALES 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Foothill Presbyterian Hospital 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold's Gym DC Metro Bailey's Crossroads 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Milkhouse Candle Co - New Hampton 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lucky Day Logistics LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 400-DREES-CLEVELAND 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synergy Equipment Jacksonville 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging South 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel Medical Office Building #5 46 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.