BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER · Kentucky

Kight Home Center 498

Owensboro, KY · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kight Home Center 498 runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER workplace, earning a grade D.

Kight Home Center 498: 6.0 TCR = 175% of BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kight Home Center 498 safety composite

Kight Home Center 498 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Kight Home Center 498: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Kight Home Center 498's TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 175% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #22/31
  • PHOTO Plywood Company of F…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plywood Company of Fort Worth, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kight Home Center 498 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kight Home Center 498 averages 6.0 TCR (175% of the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER BLS benchmark).

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

Kight Home Center 498 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=15 · 2023=13.3 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Kight Home Center 498 falls in its industry

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 31 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers in Kentucky.

Kight Home Center 498 (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kight Home Center 498
Kight Home Center 498 (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Kight Home Center 498 has fewer employees than the BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2023 13.3 4.4 3 0 0
2022 15.0 3.8 4 0 0
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · KY · Owensboro

1,643 BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 Plywood Company of Fort Worth, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SALLISAW LUMBER COMPANY, INC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Haven Builders Supply - Newtown 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Division 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE john wayne 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown Storeroom & Service Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Meter Department 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Bimeda Irwindale 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Catherine's Manor of Washington Court House 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CLR Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harwood Place 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 58 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Metal Fabricators Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Civil Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Square Stamping Mfg 24 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.