Assembly plant construction · Kentucky

Hercules Manufacturing Company

Henderson, KY · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hercules Manufacturing Company runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assembly plant construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Hercules Manufacturing Company: 3.7 TCR = 128% of Assembly plant construction BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hercules Manufacturing Company safety composite

Hercules Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hercules Manufacturing Company: 2.5 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Hercules Manufacturing Company's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.5 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Henderson, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 128% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO Bruns Belmont Constr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bruns Belmont Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hercules Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hercules Manufacturing Company averages 3.7 TCR (128% of the Assembly plant construction BLS benchmark).

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

Hercules Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=0 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Hercules Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

924 Assembly plant construction establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Assembly plant construction employers in Kentucky.

Hercules Manufacturing Company (60 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hercules Manufacturing Company
Hercules Manufacturing Company (60 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Hercules Manufacturing Company has fewer employees than the Assembly plant construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2024 5.1 4.3 6 0 0
2023 7.2 7.2 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · KY · Henderson

924 Assembly plant construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 82 employers in Henderson, 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 Bruns Belmont Construction 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Core Concepts, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erhardt Construction 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Development Company 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Workman Farms INC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFP 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Generating Station 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopkinsville Electric System 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gibbs Die Casting 995 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital main campus 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deaconess Henderson Hospital 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 694 377 FTE
NAT-TCR Lci 119 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson City Capital Plaza 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarinda Regional Health Center 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE GMCO Corporation 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMPTX Electric, LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawthorne Gardening - Tracy 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lake Ridge 60 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.