Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing · Kentucky

Kingsford Mfg

Burnside, KY · ~116 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kingsford Mfg runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kingsford Mfg: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kingsford Mfg safety composite

Kingsford Mfg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2024

Kingsford Mfg injury rate improved

Kingsford Mfg's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.5 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Burnside, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Ingevity SC, LLC - C…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kingsford Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kingsford Mfg averages 1.1 TCR (32% 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 Mfg TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kingsford Mfg falls in its industry

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #3 safest of 6 Charcoal briquettes, wood, man employers in Kentucky.

Kingsford Mfg (116 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Mfg
Kingsford Mfg (116 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kingsford Mfg has more 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 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2016 2.5 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · KY · Burnside

58 Charcoal briquettes, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Burnside, 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 Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savannah Manufacturing 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Oak Enterprises Birmingham LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summer Shade 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE All Facilities 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eaton Asphalt Paving Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edmonton Sewing 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper - Lexington Container 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrick Hardwoods, Inc 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burnside 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Generating Station 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Rail Service, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-TCR International Paper 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR D53 Houston 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Industrial Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boyd Sign Systems, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milgard Pultrusion 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hidden Valley Manufacturing 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2047 Coborn's Otsego 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Lights Services INC 116 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, 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.