Highway construction · Kentucky

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC

Richmond, KY · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC: 0.7 TCR = 26% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC safety composite

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC held a steady TCR band

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Richmond, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/51
  • PHOTO R.E. Heidt Construct…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R.E. Heidt Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC averages 0.7 TCR (26% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 51 Highway construction employers in Kentucky.

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC (43 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC
Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC (43 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC has fewer employees than the Highway construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KY · Richmond

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 100 employers in Richmond, 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 R.E. Heidt Construction 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rogers Group Inc - EMTN 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 14 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR E & B PAVING LLC - Corporate 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar Creek WQTP 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swift Roofing of E'town, Inc 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & M Electric Inc 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Kentucky 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Grass Chem. Demil. 947 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Richmond 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heath Richmond 604 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chem Demil US KY Richmond KY KY997 539 FTE
NAT-TCR Magid Glove and Safety 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Schlumberger Technologies 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ASO 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Neshoba County General Hospital 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE HydroChem LLC-JFL 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maine Fire Protection Systems 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lasco Foods Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Area Energy & Electric, Inc. Marysville Branch 43 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.