Water treatment and distribution · Kentucky

Kentucky American Water

Lexington, KY · ~141 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kentucky American Water runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Kentucky American Water: 2.0 TCR = 163% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentucky American Water safety composite

Kentucky American Water scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Kentucky American Water: 0.7 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2021

Kentucky American Water's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.0 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #6/21
  • PHOTO Elkin
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kentucky American Water in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kentucky American Water averages 2.0 TCR (163% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Kentucky American Water TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=2 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 1.2

Where Kentucky American Water falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #6 safest of 21 Water treatment and distributi employers in Kentucky.

Kentucky American Water (141 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kentucky American Water
Kentucky American Water (141 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kentucky American Water has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower 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
2021 1.4 0.7 1 1 0
2018 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 5 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · KY · Lexington

727 Water treatment and distribution 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 Elkin 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Charles 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johns Creek - OMI 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa Bay Water 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EW Brown Station 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Envision Contractors, LLC 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global - BOKY 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORBIS Georgetown 141 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 Silver Legacy Resort Casino 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 401 Collins 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Andover Place 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TAMKO - Phillipsburg 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Dream Home Improvement, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palatial Concrete Ltd. 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signode Engineered Products 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilpin Hall-Home for Aged Women 141 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, 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.