Police and fire departments, combined · Kentucky

City of Ashland

Ashland, KY · ~309 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Ashland runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Ashland: 3.0 TCR = 94% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Ashland safety composite

City of Ashland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.9

2016→2024

City of Ashland injury rate improved

City of Ashland's TCR fell 2.9 from 4.4 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Ashland, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Public Safety Center
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~309 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Safety Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Ashland averages 3.0 TCR (94% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

City of Ashland TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Ashland falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Police and fire departments, c employers in Kentucky.

City of Ashland (309 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Ashland
City of Ashland (309 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Ashland has more employees than the Police and fire departments, combined median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 1.5 1.1 7 0 0
2023 3.0 2.6 14 0 0
2022 2.4 1.9 10 0 0
2021 2.5 1.6 9 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 6 2 0
2019 3.2 1.2 11 0 0
2018 3.5 1.2 11 1 0
2017 4.3 2.3 14 1 0
2016 4.4 2.7 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · KY · Ashland

716 Police and fire departments, combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Ashland, 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 Public Safety Center 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Police / DOEM/ Maintenance 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Passaic Cty Sheriff's Dept 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (21) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4450 309 FTE
STATE-SIZE 204601-LEXINGTON KY P&DC 309 FTE
STATE-SIZE Russellville Pouring Plant 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE HIGHLANDS DIVERSIFED SERVICES 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1426 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1426 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Dallas 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Steinbrecher Painting Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TDM Leasing, LTD 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cannon Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Raleigh- Transportation 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forbo 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Options, Inc. 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pulaski Memorial Hospital 309 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.