Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Kentucky

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc.

Louisville, KY · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. safety composite

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc.: 0.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc.'s TCR rose 10.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Midland Chutes
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midland Chutes (0.0 TCR gap)

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Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 11 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Kentucky.

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. (21 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc.
Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. (21 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Derby Welding & Machine Co. Inc. has fewer employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 10.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · KY · Louisville

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing 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 Midland Chutes 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAID Industries, a Division of Samuel, Son & Co. (USA) Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OEM Tube Assemblies 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&H Welding & Repair 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reed Minerals - Drakesboro 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardinsburg Office 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Madisonville - Electric Distribution 21 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 Town Administration 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pleasant Grove 10046 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Middle School 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 358 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE All Steel Fence, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millbury Ma Distribution Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canastota Ny Distribution Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lubbock Tx Distribution Center 21 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. 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.