Water treatment and distribution · Kentucky

Louisville Water Company

Louisville, KY · ~448 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Louisville Water Company runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Louisville Water Company: 2.2 TCR = 182% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisville Water Company safety composite

Louisville Water Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.4

2020→2024

Louisville Water Company injury rate improved

Louisville Water Company's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.6 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.6 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #7/21
  • PHOTO 6271-035
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~448 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6271-035 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louisville Water Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louisville Water Company averages 2.2 TCR (182% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Louisville Water Company TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 1.2

Where Louisville Water Company falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 21 Water treatment and distributi employers in Kentucky.

Louisville Water Company (448 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Louisville Water Company
Louisville Water Company (448 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Louisville Water Company has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 1.2 1.0 6 0 0
2023 1.9 1.4 9 0 0
2022 2.7 1.7 11 2 0
2021 2.5 1.4 12 0 0
2020 2.6 1.4 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · KY · Louisville

727 Water treatment and distribution 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 6271-035 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aulick Chemical Solutions 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sierra Vista 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granger-Hunter Improvement District 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barton 1792 Distillery 449 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kentucky Cooperage 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE KMG Fabrication 449 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems 449 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 PathPoint Kern 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Edwardsville Terminal 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 47IL 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlie C's IGA #760 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Syracuse 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Hanover 128 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Plains Communications 448 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lund International 448 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. 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.