Other Airport Operations · Kentucky

Lex United Ground Express-Lex

Lexington, KY · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lex United Ground Express-Lex runs at 418% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade F.

Lex United Ground Express-Lex: 18.8 TCR = 418% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lex United Ground Express-Lex safety composite

Lex United Ground Express-Lex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

−1.2

2023→2024

Lex United Ground Express-Lex injury rate improved

Lex United Ground Express-Lex's TCR fell 1.2 from 19.4 in 2023 to 18.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=19.4 · 2024=18.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.8 · 418% of ind

  • DART 18.2 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO SFO SFO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFO SFO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lex United Ground Express-Lex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lex United Ground Express-Lex averages 18.8 TCR (418% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

Lex United Ground Express-Lex TCR series: 2023=19.4 · 2024=18.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Lex United Ground Express-Lex falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #25 safest of 25 Other Airport Operations employers in Kentucky.

Lex United Ground Express-Lex (27 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Lex United Ground Express-Lex
Lex United Ground Express-Lex (27 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Lex United Ground Express-Lex has fewer employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a higher 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
2024 18.2 18.2 3 0 0
2023 19.4 19.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · KY · Lexington

1,555 Other Airport Operations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 SFO SFO 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAT - RIPVD 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unifi Aviation Services : PSC - Pasco, WA 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6957-FSD 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Davis Tobacco 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robards Growout 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pikeville Transmission SC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murray Natural Gas and Murray Water and Sewer System 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Montebello Care Center 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Parallel 33 Fingerjoint 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yerinv-Atcs-Yerington,Nv - Nevada 18.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 08 Lincoln, NE 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engbarth Directional Drilling 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idgrn - Grangeville Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Trenchless, LLC 27 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. 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.