Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing · Kentucky

Kingsford Manufacturing Co.

Summer Shade, KY · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kingsford Manufacturing Co.: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. safety composite

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. held a steady TCR band

Kingsford Manufacturing Co.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Summer Shade, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO INEOS Joliet
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INEOS Joliet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kingsford Manufacturing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kingsford Manufacturing Co. averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Kingsford Manufacturing Co. falls in its industry

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man employers in Kentucky.

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. (76 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kingsford Manufacturing Co.
Kingsford Manufacturing Co. (76 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kingsford Manufacturing Co. has fewer employees than the Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2018 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · KY · Summer Shade

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 3 employers in Summer Shade, 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 INEOS Joliet 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Hills Resources Joliet Facility 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraton Chemical LLC, Dover Site 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Pascagoula 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paul Michels and Sons, Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hebron 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresline Plastic Pipe Company, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asahi Blue Grass Forge 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summer Shade 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dickerson Lumber Company, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Garner Complex 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Blue North 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Soil Environmental, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spark Therapy, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 57245 Philadelphia Dept of Aviation 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 63NI 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolverine Coil Spring Co 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDonough 76 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, 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.