Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Kentucky

Nelson Company of Kentucky

Lewisburg, KY · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Company of Kentucky runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nelson Company of Kentucky: 4.6 TCR = 138% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Company of Kentucky safety composite

Nelson Company of Kentucky scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Nelson Company of Kentucky: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Nelson Company of Kentucky's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Lewisburg, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #8/26
  • PHOTO TCE - Lakeland
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TCE - Lakeland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Company of Kentucky in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Company of Kentucky averages 4.6 TCR (138% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Company of Kentucky TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=12 · 2022=9 · 2023=3 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Company of Kentucky falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 26 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Kentucky.

Nelson Company of Kentucky (33 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Company of Kentucky
Nelson Company of Kentucky (33 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Nelson Company of Kentucky has fewer employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2021 12.0 6.0 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2017 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · KY · Lewisburg

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 TCE - Lakeland 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Missouri Cooperage 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Northeast TX - Plant - 590 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP Hartford LLC 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Richmond Farm, LLC. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington Operations Center 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Station 33 FTE
NAT-TCR CFE Hartley 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #108 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlie C's IGA #825 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Du Chien 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHEP Jackson Service Center (USZY) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Liberal Springs 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Krupp General Contractors, LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix DSD 33 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.