Pop, soda, manufacturing · Kentucky

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY

Lexington, KY · ~219 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pop, soda, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Pop, soda, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY safety composite

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY: 4.5 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.5 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO SHASTA BEVERAGES, INC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SHASTA BEVERAGES, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Pop, soda, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY falls in its industry

516 Pop, soda, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Pop, soda, manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY (219 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY
G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY (219 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

G & J Pepsi Cola Bottlers- Lexington KY has more employees than the Pop, soda, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 4.9 3.6 11 0 0
2023 4.5 2.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · KY · Lexington

516 Pop, soda, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 SHASTA BEVERAGES, INC. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Eugene 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DreamPak, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hauchuca City 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schardein Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE PDS Consultants Inc #1 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE GUBMK Constructors - TVA Shawnee Fossil Plant 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Lexington 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR IFABM 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood 2 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR El Campo Farms, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bi-Metallix Vishay Dale Electronics 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE McClarin Plastics LLC 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global Sioux Falls 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 148a Lci 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molex West Bond 219 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.