Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

LaGrange

Lagrange, KY · ~32 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaGrange runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

LaGrange: 7.5 TCR = 340% of Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaGrange safety composite

LaGrange scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

LaGrange: 5.9 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

LaGrange's TCR rose 6.5 from 5.9 in 2018 to 12.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Lagrange, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 340% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO FPT - Miami
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FPT - Miami (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaGrange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaGrange averages 7.5 TCR (340% of the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

LaGrange TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 2.2

Where LaGrange falls in its industry

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 24 Recyclable materials (e.g., gl employers in Kentucky.

LaGrange (32 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate LaGrange
LaGrange (32 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

LaGrange has fewer employees than the Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 12.4 3.5 7 0 0
2023 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 8.4 4.2 4 0 0
2021 11.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · KY · Lagrange

1,126 Recyclable materials (e.g., glass, metal, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 13 employers in Lagrange, 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 FPT - Miami 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spruill Ave. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aim Recycling Colton 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMR Advanced Recycling LLC 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Limestone Transmission Substation 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaefer General Contracting Services 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ray Black & Son, Inc. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OMNI Commercial LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kentucky State Reformatory 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roederer Correctional Complex 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oldham County Fiscal Court 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Honolulu International Airport - HNL Cargo 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BWJ Metalworks, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FLJ001 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SSI Lubricants LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Employee Child Care Center 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Health Surgery Center 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Admin Offices - Kahului 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burley XPS 32 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.