Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator · Kentucky

Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.

Hardinsburg, KY · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator workplace, earning a grade A.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.8
industry benchmark (BLS)
1
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.8 industry benchmark.

-101234 2018201920202021202220232024 02.8 Industry benchmarkJoe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 238910.

Where Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. falls in its industry

2,119 Equipment rental (except crane establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 28 Equipment rental (except crane employers in Kentucky.

Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. has an average TCR of 0.4, which is 15% of the industry average (2.8) for Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator. This is significantly better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.

Between 2018 and 2024, Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 3.0, a spread of 3.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. recorded 1 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 238910 - Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 61,853 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. (this establishment) 0.42 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Foundation drilling contractors industry avg 2.80 BLS IIF, NAICS 238910
Kentucky state avg (all industries) 4.39 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 15% of the Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator benchmark, Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc.'s safety grade?
Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.4 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.8 for Equipment rental (except crane), construction, with operator.
How many injuries has Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. reported?
Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. has reported 1 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.