Hydrostatic drives manufacturing · Kentucky

Hydro-Gear, Princeton

Princeton, KY · ~493 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hydro-Gear, Princeton runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hydrostatic drives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hydro-Gear, Princeton: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Hydrostatic drives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hydro-Gear, Princeton safety composite

Hydro-Gear, Princeton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Hydro-Gear, Princeton injury rate improved

Hydro-Gear, Princeton's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.3 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333996 · Princeton, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO Mody Pumps Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~493 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mody Pumps Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hydro-Gear, Princeton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hydro-Gear, Princeton averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Hydrostatic drives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hydro-Gear, Princeton TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0.2 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hydro-Gear, Princeton falls in its industry

74 Hydrostatic drives manufacturi establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hydro-Gear, Princeton (493 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 128 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hydro-Gear, Princeton
Hydro-Gear, Princeton (493 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 128 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Hydro-Gear, Princeton has more employees than the Hydrostatic drives manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2023 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.1 7 8 0
2021 3.4 3.4 6 14 0
2020 1.3 1.3 3 2 0
2019 1.5 0.7 6 0 0
2016 1.3 0.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333996 · KY · Princeton

74 Hydrostatic drives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 25 employers in Princeton, 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 Mody Pumps Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muncie Power Products, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danfoss Power Solutions II 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Motion Systems : Blaine 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kenton County Airport Board / CVG 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regal Beloit America, Inc. 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Automotive Operation USA, LLC - Bardstown 1 494 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Steel Gallatin 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treehouse Foods 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR TreeHouse Foods Princeton, KY 619 FTE
CITY-NEAR 204 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 204 263 FTE
NAT-TCR Pagoda Electrical Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tullahoma, TN - TUL 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR P & N Machine Co., Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Volt Industrial Plastics 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 22 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Carlsbad 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenworth Truck Company Renton 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe Energy Trainer Refinery 493 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, 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.