Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite manufacturing · Kentucky

Carbide Industries Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~121 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Carbide Industries Louisville runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Carbide Industries Louisville: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carbide Industries Louisville safety composite

Carbide Industries Louisville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 9% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

6/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Carbide Industries Louisville: 4.8 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2019

Carbide Industries Louisville's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.8 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Old Bridge Chemicals
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Old Bridge Chemicals (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carbide Industries Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carbide Industries Louisville averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carbide Industries Louisville TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Carbide Industries Louisville falls in its industry

418 Calcium carbide, chloride, and establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #13 safest of 13 Calcium carbide, chloride, and employers in Kentucky.

Carbide Industries Louisville (121 employees, TCR 6.1) 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
Carbide Industries Louisville (121 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Carbide Industries Louisville has more employees than the Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlor 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
2019 9.2 5.4 12 0 0
2018 3.9 2.3 5 0 1
2017 6.5 3.3 8 0 0
2016 4.8 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · KY · Louisville

418 Calcium carbide, chloride, and hypochlorite 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 Old Bridge Chemicals 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aldrich-APL, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thatcher Company of New York 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BleachTech LLC 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A One Pallet Distributing, Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Simpsonville, Kentucky 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3A Composites USA, Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Greenville 121 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 AcuityBrands Lighting Winona 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MN,CANBY - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Distribution _T10 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shea Properties-CO 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott Construction Inc. 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth Corporate Office 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermal Windows & Doors LLC - Headquarters 121 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.