Truss Manufacturing · Kentucky

K-I Lexington Truss

Lexington, KY · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K-I Lexington Truss runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

K-I Lexington Truss: 14.7 TCR = 445% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K-I Lexington Truss safety composite

K-I Lexington Truss scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

K-I Lexington Truss: 9.9 → 19.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 29.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2021

K-I Lexington Truss's TCR rose 9.4 from 9.9 in 2016 to 19.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 29.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 445% of ind

  • DART 19.4 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Trussworthy Componen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trussworthy Components, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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K-I Lexington Truss in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K-I Lexington Truss averages 14.7 TCR (445% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

K-I Lexington Truss TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=15 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=29.8 · 2020=5 · 2021=19.4 · BLS 3.3

Where K-I Lexington Truss falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

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 7 Truss Manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

K-I Lexington Truss (21 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate K-I Lexington Truss
K-I Lexington Truss (21 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

K-I Lexington Truss has fewer employees than the Truss Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2021 19.4 19.4 3 0 0
2020 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 29.8 29.8 6 0 0
2018 8.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 15.0 12.0 5 0 0
2016 9.9 9.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · KY · Lexington

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 Trussworthy Components, Inc. 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nisbet Brower Components 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truspro Structural Components, Inc. 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TNP 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reed Minerals - Drakesboro 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardinsburg Office 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Madisonville - Electric Distribution 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR BENCO Electric Cooperative 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pueblo Center 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwalk Drivers 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 333450-Harrison Po 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE All-Phase Electric Supply (PC3505) 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Manorcare Shadyside 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Usaa Tampa Crosstown 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belle Fourche 21 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.