Industrial pattern manufacturing · Kentucky

Kelly Fabricators Corp.

Louisville, KY · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kelly Fabricators Corp. runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial pattern manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kelly Fabricators Corp.: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Industrial pattern manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelly Fabricators Corp. safety composite

Kelly Fabricators Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Kelly Fabricators Corp.: 2.4 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Kelly Fabricators Corp.'s TCR rose 5.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Adams & Westlake, Ltd
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adams & Westlake, Ltd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kelly Fabricators Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelly Fabricators Corp. averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Industrial pattern manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kelly Fabricators Corp. TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=10.8 · 2019=13.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.3 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kelly Fabricators Corp. falls in its industry

827 Industrial pattern manufacturi establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Industrial pattern manufacturi employers in Kentucky.

Kelly Fabricators Corp. (32 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kelly Fabricators Corp.
Kelly Fabricators Corp. (32 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kelly Fabricators Corp. has fewer employees than the Industrial pattern manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 7.8 3.9 1 1 0
2023 12.3 4.1 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 12.6 4.2 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.9 0.0 5 0 0
2018 10.8 2.7 4 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · KY · Louisville

827 Industrial pattern manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 Adams & Westlake, Ltd 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worthington Steel Company Bowling Green 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Fabrication LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR T & S Equipment 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Limestone Transmission Substation 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaefer General Contracting Services 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ray Black & Son, Inc. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNI Commercial LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Inertia Engineering 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Essentia Health Sandstone 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #25 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE North 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Ready Mix, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Cooling Corporation 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Abrasives, Inc. 32 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, 2017. 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.