Ambulance services, air or ground · Kentucky

Nelson County EMS

Bardstown, KY · ~39 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson County EMS runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

Nelson County EMS: 5.6 TCR = 146% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson County EMS safety composite

Nelson County EMS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nelson County EMS: 5.1 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Nelson County EMS's TCR rose 5.3 from 5.1 in 2019 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Bardstown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/21
  • PHOTO Cherokee County SC …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherokee County SC Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson County EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson County EMS averages 5.6 TCR (146% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson County EMS TCR series: 2019=5.1 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Nelson County EMS falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

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 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Kentucky.

Nelson County EMS (39 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson County EMS
Nelson County EMS (39 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Nelson County EMS has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 10.4 2.6 2 2 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2020 10.2 10.2 4 0 0
2019 5.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · KY · Bardstown

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 70 employers in Bardstown, 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 Cherokee County SC Operations 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Medical Response Division 3 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Com-Care Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fountain Hills FireOperations 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Magnum Hunter Production, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE REALM CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCD, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murray Paving Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Fuji Seal 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heaven Hill Brands 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bardstown I 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tower Automotive Operation USA, LLC - Bardstown 1 494 FTE
NAT-TCR Sunrise Nursing Healthcare LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spartanburg SC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Residential Concepts, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GA240 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodrel Truck Lines, Cincinnati, OH 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Caguas 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Land O'Lakes - Hillsboro 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lungpacer Medical USA Inc 39 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. 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.