Framing Contractors · Kentucky

Forge Lumber - Truss

Erlanger, KY · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forge Lumber - Truss runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Framing Contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Forge Lumber - Truss: 4.7 TCR = 167% of Framing Contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forge Lumber - Truss safety composite

Forge Lumber - Truss scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−9.4

2020→2021

Forge Lumber - Truss injury rate improved

Forge Lumber - Truss's TCR fell 9.4 from 9.4 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238130 · Erlanger, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Bjork Construction C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bjork Construction CO. Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forge Lumber - Truss in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forge Lumber - Truss averages 4.7 TCR (167% of the Framing Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Forge Lumber - Truss TCR series: 2020=9.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Forge Lumber - Truss falls in its industry

387 Framing Contractors establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 5 Framing Contractors employers in Kentucky.

Forge Lumber - Truss (20 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forge Lumber - Truss
Forge Lumber - Truss (20 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Forge Lumber - Truss has fewer employees than the Framing Contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.4 9.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238130 · KY · Erlanger

387 Framing Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 118 employers in Erlanger, 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 Bjork Construction CO. Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hi-Tech Interiors Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Framers LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Falewitch Construction Services, Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daysville 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVG US HUB 3,714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KCVG 3,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVG RO 3,576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CVGGATEWAY 697 FTE
NAT-TCR Westview Health Care Center, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mutual Distributing Company - Greensboro 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Herbalife - Memphis 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Team Ford 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Justice Integration Services 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Condex, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fontana Roofing, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 20 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. 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.