Livestock Merchant Wholesalers · Kentucky

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford

Stanford, KY · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford runs at 826% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Livestock Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford: 18.2 TCR = 826% of Livestock Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford safety composite

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 Stanford: 9.3 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 26.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford's TCR rose 9.1 from 9.3 in 2022 to 18.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 26.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 826% of ind

  • DART 18.4 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO United Producers, In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Producers, Inc. - Gallipolis (0.3 TCR gap)

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Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford averages 18.2 TCR (826% 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 Stanford TCR series: 2022=9.3 · 2023=26.9 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford falls in its industry

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #8 safest of 10 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers in Kentucky.

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford (40 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Stanford
Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford (40 employees, TCR 18.2) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Blue Grass Stockyards of Stanford 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 18.4 18.4 2 0 0
2023 26.9 26.9 2 0 0
2022 9.3 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · KY · Stanford

44 Livestock Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 13 employers in Stanford, 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 East 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Livestock Center 19.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Campbellsville 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Electrical Distribution Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leak Eliminators 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE STC:SC630 - SC630-Louisville, KY 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE STC:SC640 - SC640-Lexington, KY 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 825 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR 825 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Healthcare and Rehab 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Leasing, LLC 136 FTE
NAT-TCR Valli Logistics Inc 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Family of Caring at Tenafly 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tartaglia 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MVN 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gardens of Nashville 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE SA Recycling, Nashville Linder 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synergy Equipment Orlando 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prestwick Village 40 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.