Bronze printing inks manufacturing · Kentucky

Hopkinsville Mother Plant

Hopkinsville, KY · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hopkinsville Mother Plant runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bronze printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hopkinsville Mother Plant: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Bronze printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hopkinsville Mother Plant safety composite

Hopkinsville Mother Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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)
F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.4

2016→2023

Hopkinsville Mother Plant injury rate improved

Hopkinsville Mother Plant's TCR fell 13.4 from 13.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.1 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Hopkinsville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Polymeric US
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Polymeric US (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hopkinsville Mother Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hopkinsville Mother Plant averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Bronze printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hopkinsville Mother Plant TCR series: 2016=13.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.1 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hopkinsville Mother Plant falls in its industry

111 Bronze printing inks manufactu establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Bronze printing inks manufactu employers in Kentucky.

Hopkinsville Mother Plant (28 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hopkinsville Mother Plant
Hopkinsville Mother Plant (28 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Hopkinsville Mother Plant has fewer employees than the Bronze printing inks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 13.4 3.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · KY · Hopkinsville

111 Bronze printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 132 employers in Hopkinsville, 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 Polymeric US 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Menasha Mfg. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armor 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Corporation 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Berea Farm LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandywine Explosives & Supply Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU - Danville 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jennie Stuart Medical Center 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6066 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6066 927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Trinity Towers 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1702 Lkq 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Marcos Hays County EMS 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Binghamton #237 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mediatech, Inc. - Woodland 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lmmm Dallas #37, LTD 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin & Cobey Construction Co., Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI Environmental and Industrial Fab 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 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.