Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills · Kentucky

Cardinal

Louisville, KY · ~268 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Cardinal: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal safety composite

Cardinal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−4.7

2022→2023

Cardinal injury rate improved

Cardinal's TCR fell 4.7 from 8.0 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.0 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Ancra Group : Wakefi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~268 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ancra Group : Wakefield-Withee (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cardinal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal TCR series: 2022=8 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cardinal falls in its industry

204 Rod, aluminum, made in integra establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 7 Rod, aluminum, made in integra employers in Kentucky.

Cardinal (268 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal
Cardinal (268 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal has more employees than the Rod, aluminum, made in integrated second median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 3.3 0.8 8 0 0
2022 8.0 5.7 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · KY · Louisville

204 Rod, aluminum, made in integrated secondary smelting and extruding mills 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 Ancra Group : Wakefield-Withee 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montebello Packaging INC. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBC Corporation 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Extrusions, Inc 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Allen Company, Inc 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metalsa - Owensboro 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2548 268 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1048 268 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 Precast Services, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Hospital (HealthEast) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TCLAD Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Tank & Manufacturing Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta Sheet Metal 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Marine Repair 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Materials : Salt Lake City 268 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Nuys 268 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.