Polyurethane coatings manufacturing · Kentucky

BYK USA Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~46 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BYK USA Louisville runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Polyurethane coatings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

BYK USA Louisville: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Polyurethane coatings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BYK USA Louisville safety composite

BYK USA Louisville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2024

BYK USA Louisville injury rate improved

BYK USA Louisville's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO United Paint & Chemi…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Paint & Chemical Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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BYK USA Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BYK USA Louisville averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Polyurethane coatings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BYK USA Louisville TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=7.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where BYK USA Louisville falls in its industry

530 Polyurethane coatings manufact establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 14 Polyurethane coatings manufact employers in Kentucky.

BYK USA Louisville (46 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate BYK USA Louisville
BYK USA Louisville (46 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

BYK USA Louisville has fewer employees than the Polyurethane coatings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.5 5.7 4 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2017 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · KY · Louisville

530 Polyurethane coatings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 Paint & Chemical Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tipp City Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carboline Company-Lake Charles 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA TX Arlington Plant 1.8 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 Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR ISE Sturtevant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HR Hawaii for KBXtreme 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Wayne Zoological Society, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennsylvania Machine Works, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Generative Growth - 1107 S. Shannon 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE L. G. Pike Construction CO Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Juniper Village at mount Joy 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMR North Market Street 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.