automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance · Kentucky

Lexington KY

Lexington, KY · ~68 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lexington KY runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance workplace, earning a grade F.

Lexington KY: 5.2 TCR = 246% of automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS 2.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lexington KY safety composite

Lexington KY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Lexington KY: 5.2 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Lexington KY's TCR rose 4.4 from 5.2 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 246% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Carrera Custom Paint…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carrera Custom Painting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lexington KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lexington KY averages 5.2 TCR (246% of the automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Lexington KY TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=13.2 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=2 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Lexington KY falls in its industry

277 automotive body paint and inte establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 automotive body paint and inte employers in Kentucky.

Lexington KY (68 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lexington KY
Lexington KY (68 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Lexington KY has more employees than the automotive body paint and interior repai median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2024 9.6 4.8 4 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.9 11.9 4 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2019 13.2 9.9 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.2 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · KY · Lexington

277 automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance 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 Carrera Custom Painting 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike Johnson's Collision Center 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garner 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Minneapolis 3325 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richgrove Tobacco 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mason Structure 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. Brian Morrison 68 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 Lincoln Elementary 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Albert Lea 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruppert Landscape - White Marsh 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Westside Volkswagen 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley Center KS Truss 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stericycle - Warren,OH 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tank Cleaning Services 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery AL 68 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.