Courier Services Except by Air · Kentucky

Lexington (Kylex)

Lexington, KY · ~1,502 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Lexington (Kylex) runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Lexington (Kylex): 7.0 TCR = 108% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lexington (Kylex) safety composite

Lexington (Kylex) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−2.9

2016→2018

Lexington (Kylex) injury rate improved

Lexington (Kylex)'s TCR fell 2.9 from 8.8 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 7.0 · 108% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #62/111
  • PHOTO Courier Vault Services
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 212 inj
  • SIZE ~1,502 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Courier Vault Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lexington (Kylex) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lexington (Kylex) averages 7.0 TCR (108% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Lexington (Kylex) TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Lexington (Kylex) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 111 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Kentucky.

Lexington (Kylex) (1,502 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Lexington (Kylex)
Lexington (Kylex) (1,502 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Lexington (Kylex) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 5.9 3.5 63 1 1
2017 6.3 5.0 59 3 0
2016 8.8 7.1 90 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · KY · Lexington

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Courier Vault Services 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SDSTU - STURGIS 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 3525 AIR COMMERCE DRIVE 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fleet: Aurora SDO 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTH AMERICAN STAINLESS - GHENT 1,507 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-16130001-161301 1,489 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Aluminum, Inc. 1,472 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 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 Boise (Idboi) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grants Pass (Orgra) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Building Products DALC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hampshire Location #09 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Hub (Casac) 1,502 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PHX3 1,502 FTE
NAT-SIZE DENSO International America, inc. 1,503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecolab Global Headquarters - St. Paul MN 1,501 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.