Barge building · Kentucky

James Built

Calvert City, KY · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Built runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Barge building workplace, earning a grade D.

James Built: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Barge building BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Built safety composite

James Built scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

James Built: 4.8 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2023

James Built's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.8 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336611 · Calvert City, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO IMIA, LLC Puget Soun…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IMIA, LLC Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Built in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Built averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Barge building BLS benchmark).

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

James Built TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where James Built falls in its industry

454 Barge building establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Barge building employers in Kentucky.

James Built (29 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate James Built
James Built (29 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 4.2

James Built has fewer employees than the Barge building median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 9.2 6.1 3 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336611 · KY · Calvert City

454 Barge building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 41 employers in Calvert City, 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 IMIA, LLC Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burger Boat Company 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swiftships LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trident - New Construction SD 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bremen 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robards Hatchery 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covington Service Center 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joint Sewer Agency 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Vinyl's Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Calvert City 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkema Inc. Calvert City Plant 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Better Built Truss, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR West Monroe, La #00657 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bronx, Ny #00390 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Hartford AWC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply-Waco 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE PNW Livehaul - OR 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherryvale Rockford IL Thrift Store 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peach Street Distillers 29 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, 2020, 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.