Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills · Kentucky

Insteel Wire Products KYW

Hickman, KY · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Insteel Wire Products KYW runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills workplace, earning a grade B.

Insteel Wire Products KYW: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Insteel Wire Products KYW safety composite

Insteel Wire Products KYW scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Insteel Wire Products KYW: 2.3 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2024

Insteel Wire Products KYW's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Hickman, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Haynes International…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haynes International, INC DBA Haynes Wire Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Insteel Wire Products KYW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Insteel Wire Products KYW averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Insteel Wire Products KYW TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Insteel Wire Products KYW falls in its industry

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 5 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawi employers in Kentucky.

Insteel Wire Products KYW (38 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Insteel Wire Products KYW
Insteel Wire Products KYW (38 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Insteel Wire Products KYW has fewer employees than the Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · KY · Hickman

163 Mesh, wire, made in wire drawing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hickman, 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 Haynes International, INC DBA Haynes Wire Company 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vimco.250 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardmore Bldg A 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products AZW 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lexington Substation Dept. & Relay 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Compressor Station 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057 Mercer Rd 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Work 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tokai Carbon GE LLC Hickman 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tokai Carbon GE - Hickman Facility 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Insteel Wire Products - Hickman, KY 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Stockton 10533 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Future Technologies Venture, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AJ Candlewood Park OPCO LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valiv - Lively 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson Construction Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Humble Brands, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eric'sons VA 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillsboro 10126 38 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.