Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL · Kentucky
KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company
Lexington, KY · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.5
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 2
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.5 to the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL BLS benchmark of 2.2 (114% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company falls in its industry
1,347 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishmentsSafer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.
Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 25 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Kentucky.
Trend analysis for KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company
Between 2023 and 2024, KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 2.5 to 2.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 2% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 2.5, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 2.5, a spread of 0.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company recorded 2 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 2 injuries shown on this page for KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424490 - Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 80,524 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company (this establishment) | 2.50 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Other Grocery Related Products Merchant Wholesaler industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 424490 |
| Kentucky state avg (all industries) | 4.39 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company's reported OSHA injury record versus its Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 114% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL benchmark, KY - Lexington - 2268 Danforth Dr - The American Bottling Company reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WHSL sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.