Printing inks manufacturing · Kentucky

Flint Group

Elizabethtown, KY · ~153 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flint Group runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Flint Group: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flint Group safety composite

Flint Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2017→2024

Flint Group injury rate improved

Flint Group's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.2 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Elizabethtown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO 1ATL Sun Chemical
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1ATL Sun Chemical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flint Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flint Group averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flint Group TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.2 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Flint Group falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Printing inks manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Flint Group (153 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Flint Group
Flint Group (153 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Flint Group has more employees than the Printing inks manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.2 1.8 5 0 0
2018 1.2 0.4 3 0 0
2017 1.8 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · KY · Elizabethtown

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, 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 1ATL Sun Chemical 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Group NA Beaufort, SC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Color Elmwood Park 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Group - Winston Salem, NC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Essity 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gates Corporation - Hebron 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6897 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCM : 5808-00 Georgetown Logistics Center/Georgetown, KY 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Memorial Hospital 2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Hardin 2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etown 956 FTE
NAT-TCR Custom Coatings, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gage Products 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Constructors LLC. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clt Ltl 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inland Empire Paper Company 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE PolyJohn Enterprises 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Airport 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE DVL Group, Inc 153 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.