Abrasive products manufacturing · Kentucky

Carbide Industries, LLC

Louisville, KY · ~125 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carbide Industries, LLC runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Carbide Industries, LLC: 12.3 TCR = 374% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carbide Industries, LLC safety composite

Carbide Industries, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Carbide Industries, LLC held a steady TCR band

Carbide Industries, LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 12.5 in 2021 to 12.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=12.5 · 2022=12.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 374% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Gardner Abrasives
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gardner Abrasives (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carbide Industries, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carbide Industries, LLC averages 12.3 TCR (374% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carbide Industries, LLC TCR series: 2021=12.5 · 2022=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Carbide Industries, LLC falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Carbide Industries, LLC (125 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carbide Industries, LLC
Carbide Industries, LLC (125 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Carbide Industries, LLC has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022 12.2 8.7 13 1 0
2021 12.5 7.5 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · KY · Louisville

90 Abrasive products 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 Gardner Abrasives 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imerys Fused Minerals Niagara Falls, Inc. 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leaders Manufacturing, Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt Industries (Target Container) Display Division 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE LL FLEX LLC 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vibracoustic USA INC dba Adhesive Plant (M2) 125 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 5472-NAI-0032-0032-02488 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02029 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 243553-Holyoke Po 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc Pueblo 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods Post Road 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calallen Nursing & Rehab 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Old Saybrook 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Rocky Hill 125 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: 2022, 2021. 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.