Rope, wire, made from purchased wire · Maine

Kelco Industries

Milbridge, ME · ~37 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kelco Industries runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rope, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Kelco Industries: 10.4 TCR = 317% of Rope, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelco Industries safety composite

Kelco Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Kelco Industries: 5.0 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Kelco Industries's TCR rose 2.5 from 5.0 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Milbridge, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 317% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO G3 Industries, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G3 Industries, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kelco Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelco Industries averages 10.4 TCR (317% of the Rope, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Kelco Industries TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=14.4 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=18 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=18 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kelco Industries falls in its industry

270 Rope, wire, made from purchase establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Rope, wire, made from purchase employers in Maine.

Kelco Industries (37 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kelco Industries
Kelco Industries (37 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Kelco Industries has fewer employees than the Rope, wire, made from purchased wire median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2023 18.0 4.5 4 0 0
2022 6.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 18.0 3.0 6 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2019 14.4 5.8 5 0 0
2018 5.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · ME · Milbridge

270 Rope, wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 3 employers in Milbridge, ME · 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 G3 Industries, Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR construction 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark Wire Cloth company 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alabama Wire Products 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Machias Maine 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASC - OCC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Construction Group 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 213 NORTH EAST PAVING 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Narraguagus Bay Health Care Facility 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milbridge Factory 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Health Surgery Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pac Green Landscape 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of White Bear Lake - Sports Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MIT026 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Worthen Industries Grand Rapids 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Retail East - Oak Ridge 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penco Ak 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lamar Power Plant 37 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, 2018. 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.