Blood banks · Kentucky

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset

Somerset, KY · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset runs at 446% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade F.

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset: 16.9 TCR = 446% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset safety composite

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 16.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset: 6.5 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2023

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset's TCR rose 7.1 from 6.5 in 2017 to 13.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Somerset, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 446% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #17/19
  • PHOTO Towson, MD-Biolife 745
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Towson, MD-Biolife 745 (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset averages 16.9 TCR (446% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2018=12.7 · 2019=14.3 · 2020=22 · 2021=16.9 · 2022=32.6 · 2023=13.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Blood banks employers in Kentucky.

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset (31 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset
Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset (31 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset has fewer employees than the Blood banks median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 13.6 6.8 4 0 0
2022 32.6 29.0 6 3 0
2021 16.9 11.3 2 1 0
2020 22.0 16.5 2 2 0
2019 14.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 12.7 0.0 3 1 0
2017 6.5 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · KY · Somerset

1,713 Blood banks employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 88 employers in Somerset, 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 Towson, MD-Biolife 745 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMPACTLIFE - Burlington 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LifeShare Blood Center- Monroe 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiregrass Region - New Location 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 64 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlisle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geothermal Earthworks Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital 1,346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotetsu America, Inc. 1,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR 689 458 FTE
NAT-TCR 8807763-Lowes PA 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Simpson Meadows 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01489 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 330690-Berkeley Heights Po 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sanderson Farms Kinston Live Haul 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus Home Health Wausau 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus HH Plover 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC Mississippi Meridian 31 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: 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.