Motor Freight Transportation And Warehousing · Kentucky

Dow Louisville WHS

Name: Dow Louisville WHS Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Louisville, KY · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 5.5
Avg TCR: 5.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dow Louisville WHS runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor Freight Transportation And Warehousing workplace, earning a grade C.

Dow Louisville WHS: 5.5 TCR = 94% of Motor Freight Transportation And Warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dow Louisville WHS safety composite

Dow Louisville WHS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2017→2018

Dow Louisville WHS injury rate improved

Dow Louisville WHS's TCR fell 3.5 from 7.2 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.2 · 2018=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.5 · 94% of ind

DART 3.7 DART
RANK #204/252
PHOTO La-Z-Boy Casegoods R…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La-Z-Boy Casegoods Repair and Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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La-Z-Boy Caseg

5.5
La-Z-Boy South

5.5
Nu-Way Warehou

5.5
1911-19110010-

5.5

What this shows Dow Louisville WHS averages 5.5 TCR (94% of the Motor Freight Transportation And Warehousing BLS benchmark).

Dow Louisville WHS TCR series: 2017=7.2 · 2018=3.7 · BLS 5.8

Where Dow Louisville WHS falls in its industry

9,477 Motor Freight Transportation A establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #204 safest of 252 Motor Freight Transportation A employers in Kentucky.

Dow Louisville WHS (55 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dow Louisville WHS has fewer employees than the Motor Freight Transportation And Warehou median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018	3.7	3.7	2	0	0
2017	7.2	5.4	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · KY · Louisville

9,477 Motor Freight Transportation And Warehousing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	La-Z-Boy Casegoods Repair and Distribution Center	LENOIR, NC	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	La-Z-Boy South Ohio Distribution Center	GROVEPORT, OH	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nu-Way Warehouse I	BLOOMINGTON, IL	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1911-19110010-005910	NEWVILLE, PA	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission	PRESTONSBURG	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Infinity Pipeline, Inc.	BOWLING GREEN	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Building Crafts, Inc. (Iowa Region)	WILDER	55 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ProPump and Controls Inc	SHELBYVILLE	55 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Public Schools	Louisville	18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KYGRA - WORLDPORT	Louisville	11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WORLDPORT (KYGRA)	Louisville	9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KTKY TRUCK	Louisville	8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR	Saint Francis Home Health	Tulsa, OK	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Life Care Center of Kona	Kailua-Kona, HI	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Colonna's Shipyard, Inc.	Norfolk, VA	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	SCC at Valley Grande	Brownsville, TX	5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	P15 - Condor	Denver, CO	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Recology Western Oregon - Valley	Mcminnville, OR	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Scottsdale Links Resort	Scottsdale, AZ	55 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Steel City - BHM	Birmingham, AL	55 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: 2018, 2017. 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.