Motor vehicle paints manufacturing · Kentucky

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc.

Hopkinsville, KY · ~112 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor vehicle paints manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. safety composite

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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)
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc.: 1.2 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2021

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 1.2 in 2018 to 3.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Hopkinsville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Sto Corp Glendale
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sto Corp Glendale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. falls in its industry

530 Motor vehicle paints manufactu establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Motor vehicle paints manufactu employers in Kentucky.

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. (112 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc.
Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. (112 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Denso Air Systems Kentucky Inc. has more employees than the Motor vehicle paints manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 3.6 3.6 6 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2018 1.2 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · KY · Hopkinsville

530 Motor vehicle paints manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 132 employers in Hopkinsville, 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 Sto Corp Glendale 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cork Industries Inc. (Folcroft, PA) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US KS Andover Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CH Thompson Finishing 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amec Foster Wheeler Kamtech Trimble County CCRT Project # 072895 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Printograph, Inc., dba GotPrint - Kentucky 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genova-Kentucky, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass Plant 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennie Stuart Medical Center 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6066 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6066 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Joe Gibbs Racing, Inc - NC: Cup, CFL, Redline 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Textron Aviation - Able Engineering 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-CAL3) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paslin - Cherry Creek 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Odd Fellow Rebekah Home Association Inc 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dot Foods, Inc.- AZ 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avamere TCR Brighton 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE FE Moran Special Hazards 112 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.