Retail Hardware Stores · Kentucky

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235

Mount Sterling, KY · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 runs at 518% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235: 17.6 TCR = 518% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 safety composite

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−7.0

2021→2023

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 injury rate improved

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235's TCR fell 7.0 from 25.2 in 2021 to 18.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=25.2 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=18.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Mount Sterling, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 518% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO 0465 - AUBURN, ME
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0465 - AUBURN, ME (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kentucky employers → · Look up another →

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 averages 17.6 TCR (518% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 TCR series: 2021=25.2 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=18.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Kentucky.

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 (18 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Mount Sterling, Ky #03235
Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 (18 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Mount Sterling, Ky #03235 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 18.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 9.4 9.4 1 0 0
2021 25.2 12.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · KY · Mount Sterling

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 25 employers in Mount Sterling, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0465 - AUBURN, ME 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WINDOM STORE 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LYNWOOD, CA #00769 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLYMPIA, WA #03269 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Construction 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbine Construction Company, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 850 Tech Drive 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Systems, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabinetworks Group - Mount Sterling 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard Automotive 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Standard 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1140 355 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer Tool & Forge, Inc. 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 046410-Nlr-Park Hill Sta 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Thunderbird Senior Living 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Ogden Post Acute 17.6 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. 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.