Foundries, steel investment · Kentucky

Dafco Aerospace

Louisville, KY · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dafco Aerospace runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Foundries, steel investment workplace, earning a grade D.

Dafco Aerospace: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Foundries, steel investment BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dafco Aerospace safety composite

Dafco Aerospace scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Dafco Aerospace: 1.6 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.71× in 2024

Dafco Aerospace's TCR rose 6.8 from 1.6 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331512 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO Lamothermic Corporat…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lamothermic Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dafco Aerospace in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dafco Aerospace averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Foundries, steel investment BLS benchmark).

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

Dafco Aerospace TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dafco Aerospace falls in its industry

89 Foundries, steel investment establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dafco Aerospace (37 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dafco Aerospace
Dafco Aerospace (37 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Dafco Aerospace has fewer employees than the Foundries, steel investment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2022 8.8 8.8 5 0 0
2021 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331512 · KY · Louisville

89 Foundries, steel investment 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 Lamothermic Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yamaha 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K.W. Thompson Tool Co. Inc. dba Thompson Investment Casting 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Invest Cast, Inc - South 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - ET&S 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CW Assemblies LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2850 RUSSELLVILLE BOWLING GREEN KY 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ontrac Inc Dba Blitz Builders Inc 37 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 Tribunal Supremo 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethany on 42nd 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange County Plastering Company Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Denco Highway Construction Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE SMOOTH Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bella Notte Linens 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headrick Logging 37 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, 2017. 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.