Truck trailer manufacturing · Kentucky

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc.

Elizabethtown, KY · ~61 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc.: 9.3 TCR = 281% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. safety composite

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.9

2017→2024

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. injury rate improved

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc.'s TCR fell 10.9 from 16.0 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.0 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Elizabethtown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 281% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Elite Trailer MFG
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elite Trailer MFG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. averages 9.3 TCR (281% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. TCR series: 2017=16 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=7 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 9 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc.
Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Bluegrass Tank & Equipment, Inc. has fewer employees than the Truck trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 5.1 3.4 3 0 0
2023 7.0 5.2 4 0 0
2022 9.1 7.2 5 0 0
2017 16.0 6.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · KY · Elizabethtown

474 Truck trailer manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Elite Trailer MFG 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doolittle Trailer Manufacturing 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Evans Manufacturing 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CM Pettijohn 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE gas, water and sanitary services 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bray Construction Services 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raatz Fence Company 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Memorial Hospital 2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Hardin 2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etown 956 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Surgery Center, LP 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid Precision Mfg 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Suddath Relocation Systems of Oregon, LLC (W) 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Store 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Millwork, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firebaugh Packinghouse 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preschool University 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFJ Enterprises Inc. 61 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.