Construction & Forrestry Equipment · Kentucky

Meade Equipment - Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meade Equipment - Louisville runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction & Forrestry Equipment workplace, earning a grade F.

Meade Equipment - Louisville: 5.3 TCR = 240% of Construction & Forrestry Equipment BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meade Equipment - Louisville safety composite

Meade Equipment - Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Meade Equipment - Louisville: 5.1 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.2× in 2023

Meade Equipment - Louisville's TCR rose 6.6 from 5.1 in 2020 to 11.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 240% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Synergy Equipment Ta…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Synergy Equipment Tampa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meade Equipment - Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meade Equipment - Louisville averages 5.3 TCR (240% of the Construction & Forrestry Equipment BLS benchmark).

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

Meade Equipment - Louisville TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=11.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Meade Equipment - Louisville falls in its industry

533 Construction & Forrestry Equip establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Construction & Forrestry Equip employers in Kentucky.

Meade Equipment - Louisville (19 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Meade Equipment - Louisville
Meade Equipment - Louisville (19 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Meade Equipment - Louisville has fewer employees than the Construction & Forrestry Equipment median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 11.7 11.7 2 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · KY · Louisville

533 Construction & Forrestry Equipment 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Synergy Equipment Tampa 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Material Handling - Topeka 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden State Bobcat, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stribling Equipment - Little Rock 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Plant 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A L Baumgartner Construction Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judy Construction Company - 202104 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Madisonville - Wastewater Collection 19 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 2412-Hyatt Place/House Denver Dt 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR H.Rodriguez Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Florida Underground, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 1201 W River Pkwy 5.3 TCR

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: 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.