Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Kentucky - Metals

Georgetown, KY · ~32 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kentucky - Metals runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Kentucky - Metals: 0.7 TCR = 33% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kentucky - Metals safety composite

Kentucky - Metals scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Kentucky - Metals held a steady TCR band

Kentucky - Metals's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Georgetown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO Empire Metal Trading…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire Metal Trading LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kentucky - Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kentucky - Metals averages 0.7 TCR (33% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kentucky - Metals TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Kentucky - Metals falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 24 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in Kentucky.

Kentucky - Metals (32 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kentucky - Metals
Kentucky - Metals (32 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Kentucky - Metals has fewer employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 3.2 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · KY · Georgetown

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 93 employers in Georgetown, 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 Empire Metal Trading LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-West Textile LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR OmniSource LLC - Winston-Salem 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Recycling Burlington 0.7 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 Toyota Motor Mfg Kentucky, Inc 10,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Scott County 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient US LLC. 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR VASCOR Ltd 537 FTE
NAT-TCR US Ecology Boston (West) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack Batte & Sons, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GBS Corp 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Houston East 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE XMC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE XKK 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life EMS Inc.-Ionia 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE XBH 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, 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.