Powder made from purchased aluminum · Kentucky

ECKART America - Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ECKART America - Louisville runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Powder made from purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

ECKART America - Louisville: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Powder made from purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ECKART America - Louisville safety composite

ECKART America - Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2020

ECKART America - Louisville injury rate improved

ECKART America - Louisville's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.8 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Matalco Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Matalco Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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ECKART America - Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ECKART America - Louisville averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Powder made from purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

ECKART America - Louisville TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=6 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where ECKART America - Louisville falls in its industry

103 Powder made from purchased alu establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Powder made from purchased alu employers in Kentucky.

ECKART America - Louisville (77 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate ECKART America - Louisville
ECKART America - Louisville (77 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

ECKART America - Louisville has more employees than the Powder made from purchased aluminum median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2017 10.1 7.6 6 2 0
2016 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · KY · Louisville

103 Powder made from purchased aluminum 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 Matalco Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidewood 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennex Aluminum Company - Greenville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matalco Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lexington Distribution Operations Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Roofing & Metal Lexington 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rabbit Hole Spirits, LLC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Derby Fabricating Solutions - Louisville 77 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 BMC-Jamestown 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Major Tool & Machine Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 122 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Falls-P 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coilplus, Inc. Pennsylvania Division 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Iron, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum FAV 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE GAC Chemical Inc 77 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.