Acetylene manufacturing · Kentucky

HGI Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~27 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HGI Louisville runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Acetylene manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

HGI Louisville: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Acetylene manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HGI Louisville safety composite

HGI Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

HGI Louisville: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

HGI Louisville's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Linde Niagara Falls
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linde Niagara Falls (0.1 TCR gap)

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HGI Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HGI Louisville averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Acetylene manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HGI Louisville TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=17 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where HGI Louisville falls in its industry

295 Acetylene manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Acetylene manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

HGI Louisville (27 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HGI Louisville
HGI Louisville (27 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

HGI Louisville has fewer employees than the Acetylene manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 6.5 3.3 2 0 0
2023 17.0 6.8 5 0 0
2022 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2021 9.3 4.7 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · KY · Louisville

295 Acetylene manufacturing 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 Linde Niagara Falls 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbide Industries LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOLSTON GASES # 17 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Branch 53 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Davis Tobacco 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robards Growout 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pikeville Transmission SC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murray Natural Gas and Murray Water and Sewer System 27 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 Hillsboro Equipment 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 37 N Chemung Street Operating Company, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Hospital of Northwest Indiana LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Masonry Walls, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE HGI Decatur 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE K Drive Greenhouse Co 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallingford Store 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Company 27 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.