SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR MANUFACTURING · Kentucky

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE

Louisville, KY · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade F.

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE: 7.3 TCR = 221% of SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE safety composite

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.0

2017→2020

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE injury rate improved

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE's TCR fell 6.0 from 6.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 221% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Hitchcock Incorporated
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hitchcock Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE averages 7.3 TCR (221% of the SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=16.7 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE falls in its industry

474 SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH employers in Kentucky.

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE (20 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE
KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE (20 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

KY01-SMA-LOUISVILLE has fewer employees than the SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRI median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 16.7 11.2 3 0 0
2017 6.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · KY · Louisville

474 SPEED CHANGER, INDUSTRIAL HIGH-SPEED DRIVE, AND GEAR 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 Hitchcock Incorporated 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homesteader LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demountable Concepts, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Group L.L.C. Nampa Plant 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daysville 20 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 40 Montrose 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JSJ Harvesting, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Ortho - Seneca 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tonkin Parts Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Circle City Cabinets 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Process Displays, LLC - Solid 4 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPIC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Foundation for Southern Arizona 20 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, 2017. 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.