Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · Kentucky

EW Brown Plant

Harrodsburg, KY · ~115 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EW Brown Plant runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade D.

EW Brown Plant: 2.1 TCR = 178% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EW Brown Plant safety composite

EW Brown Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

EW Brown Plant held a steady TCR band

EW Brown Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.8 in 2019 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Harrodsburg, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #19/23
  • PHOTO AES Puerto Rico
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AES Puerto Rico (0.0 TCR gap)

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EW Brown Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EW Brown Plant averages 2.1 TCR (178% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

EW Brown Plant TCR series: 2019=0.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1 · BLS 1.2

Where EW Brown Plant falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 23 Electric power generation, fos employers in Kentucky.

EW Brown Plant (115 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate EW Brown Plant
EW Brown Plant (115 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

EW Brown Plant has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.4 0.9 1 5 0
2021 1.6 0.0 0 2 0
2020 3.9 0.8 1 4 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · KY · Harrodsburg

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 19 employers in Harrodsburg, 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 AES Puerto Rico 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Harquahala Generating Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayden Station-948 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merrimack Station 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE US106: Louisville 233 - SG 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal Industrial Insulation Company, Inc. 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Owensboro KY Plant 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irvine Sewing 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. 1,383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hitachi Astemo 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corning 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essity Operations Wausau LLC 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Revere Electric Supply Hartland 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SOLUT! 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenworth Buffalo 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Front Range Energy LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saroyan Lumber 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1004-41 GoJet STL Flight Operations 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bob Thompson Motor Co 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middletown, Oh 115 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. 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.