Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing · Kentucky

Kirk & Blum Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirk & Blum Louisville runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kirk & Blum Louisville: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirk & Blum Louisville safety composite

Kirk & Blum Louisville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kirk & Blum Louisville: 1.6 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Kirk & Blum Louisville's TCR rose 6.3 from 1.6 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Abrams Airborne Manu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abrams Airborne Manufacturing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kirk & Blum Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirk & Blum Louisville averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kirk & Blum Louisville TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kirk & Blum Louisville falls in its industry

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Ducts, sheet metal, manufactur employers in Kentucky.

Kirk & Blum Louisville (33 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirk & Blum Louisville
Kirk & Blum Louisville (33 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kirk & Blum Louisville has fewer employees than the Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 7.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · KY · Louisville

1,158 Ducts, sheet metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 Abrams Airborne Manufacturing, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AJL Manufacturing Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Galvanizing 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR METALMAX HERMISTON 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Richmond Farm, LLC. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington Operations Center 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Hollywood Beach 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Catholic Community Services-Yuma 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond Purina Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kandiyohi County Office Building 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens-Brockway Glass Container, Inc. Plant 76 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1509 Family Fare - West Branch, MI FF, LLC #38-2750461 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canon 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Fuel Distribution Dunkirk Servicenter 33 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.