Pet Supplies · Kentucky

Fern Creek

Louisville, KY · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fern Creek runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pet Supplies workplace, earning a grade D.

Fern Creek: 6.0 TCR = 177% of Pet Supplies BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fern Creek safety composite

Fern Creek scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Fern Creek: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Fern Creek's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 8.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453910 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO 00000465 0465 PLYMOUTH
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 00000465 0465 PLYMOUTH (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fern Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fern Creek averages 6.0 TCR (177% of the Pet Supplies BLS benchmark).

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

Fern Creek TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Fern Creek falls in its industry

99 Pet Supplies establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Pet Supplies employers in Kentucky.

Fern Creek (21 employees, TCR 6.0) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 7.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 14 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fern Creek
Fern Creek (21 employees, TCR 6.0) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 7.9

Fern Creek has fewer employees than the Pet Supplies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.9. 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 8.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 9.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453910 · KY · Louisville

99 Pet Supplies 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 00000465 0465 PLYMOUTH 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00000460 0460 MINNEAPOLIS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR psp9069 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00002754 2754 ELK RIVER 6.6 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 Ball Metalpack - Horsham, PA 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roll Rite, LLC Gladwin 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Rehabilitation and Care Community 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking of Norfolk 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. John 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avanti Windows & Doors (Tucson) 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 323 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Culinary Vegetable Institute 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: 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.