Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) manufacturing · Kentucky

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility

Louisville, KY · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility safety composite

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility held a steady TCR band

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.7 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.7 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Thatcher Company of …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thatcher Company of California, Inc. Stockton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility TCR series: 2023=4.7 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility falls in its industry

418 Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium employers in Kentucky.

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility (134 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility
Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility (134 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Carbide Industries - Louisville Facility has more employees than the Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 4.4 3.7 6 0 0
2023 4.7 2.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · KY · Louisville

418 Carbides (e.g., boron, calcium, silicon, tungsten) 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 Thatcher Company of California, Inc. Stockton 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reaxis McDonald 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pencco, Inc. - Bardwell 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LANXESS Corporation - Oxone 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper- Maysville Mill 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Biosciences, Inc. 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE TBA Harrodsburg 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2700 Crescent Springs Pike 134 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 San Isabel Electric Association- Pueblo West Administration 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pac N Save 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlan General Conces 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2685 Methuen 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daimay North America Automotive Inc 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rassini Brakes LLC 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caton Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 324 134 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.