Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants · Kentucky

Hussey Copper Bar Plant

Eminence, KY · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hussey Copper Bar Plant runs at 469% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Hussey Copper Bar Plant: 15.5 TCR = 469% of Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hussey Copper Bar Plant safety composite

Hussey Copper Bar Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2020→2023

Hussey Copper Bar Plant injury rate improved

Hussey Copper Bar Plant's TCR fell 2.5 from 16.1 in 2020 to 13.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=16.1 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=20.6 · 2023=13.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · Eminence, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 469% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Extruded Metals
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Extruded Metals (1.0 TCR gap)

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Hussey Copper Bar Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hussey Copper Bar Plant averages 15.5 TCR (469% of the Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants BLS benchmark).

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

Hussey Copper Bar Plant TCR series: 2020=16.1 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=20.6 · 2023=13.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hussey Copper Bar Plant falls in its industry

198 Bar, copper and copper alloy, establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 7 Bar, copper and copper alloy, employers in Kentucky.

Hussey Copper Bar Plant (128 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hussey Copper Bar Plant
Hussey Copper Bar Plant (128 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Hussey Copper Bar Plant has more employees than the Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 13.5 10.6 22 1 0
2022 20.6 13.1 22 8 0
2021 11.8 8.6 12 3 0
2020 16.1 15.3 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · KY · Eminence

198 Bar, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Eminence, 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 Extruded Metals 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR I.Schumann and Company 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMC MetalsAmerica, LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vulkor 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owensboro Grain Company 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville Bedding Kentucky 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millwood, Inc. Tompkinsville 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maysville Mill 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hussey Copper LTD. 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Technologies Eminence 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eminence Speaker LLC 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hussey Copper FAB Plant 57 FTE
NAT-TCR LSC Services 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S San Francisco - Hillside California 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02453 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR UST Select, Inc 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Healthcare of Greenville 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Distributing Company (4949) 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armacell LLC 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain AT&T York 128 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.