Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Cohen Lexington

Name: Cohen Lexington Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lexington, KY · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cohen Lexington runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cohen Lexington: 3.7 TCR = 168% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cohen Lexington safety composite

Cohen Lexington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cohen Lexington: 5.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Cohen Lexington's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.0 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 168% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/24
PHOTO Venture Metals Dallas
BOOK 5y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Venture Metals Dallas (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Cohen Lexington averages 3.7 TCR (168% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Cohen Lexington TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=5 · 2020=5.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Cohen Lexington falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 24 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Kentucky.

Cohen Lexington (33 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Cohen Lexington has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2020	5.7	0.0	1	0
2019	5.0	5.0	2	0
2018	2.8	2.8	0	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0
2016	5.0	0.0	1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · KY · Lexington

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Venture Metals Dallas	DALLAS, TX	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aim Recycling Vicksburg	SALOME, AZ	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shapiro Metals- Dickson	DICKSON, TN	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ERI Fresno, Suite 105	FRESNO, CA	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Appharvest Richmond Farm, LLC.	RICHMOND	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Earlington	EARLINGTON	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Earlington Operations Center	EARLINGTON	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Muldraugh Station	MULDRAUGH	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County	Lexington	11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UK Healthcare	Lexington	9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR	YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont	Lexington	3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	YMCA of Central Ky - High Street	Lexington	3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR	5255 - Rosewood Estates	Tyler, TX	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Farmers Electric Cooperative, Inc.	Greenville, TX	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Installed Building Products of Jacksonville #776	Jacksonville, FL	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	312 Mobile, Al	Mobile, AL	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	SFS Nashville-252BNA	Nashville, TN	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Signature Flight Support Sioux Falls	Sioux Falls, SD	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cypress Hospice, LLC	Berea, OH	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Goggin Morrow	Morrow, GA	33 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.