Landfills · Kentucky

Nelson County Landfill

Bardstown, KY · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson County Landfill runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landfills workplace, earning a grade D.

Nelson County Landfill: 4.9 TCR = 190% of Landfills BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson County Landfill safety composite

Nelson County Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 Landfill: 4.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

Nelson County Landfill's TCR rose 3.0 from 4.0 in 2019 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Bardstown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 190% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Keystone Landfill, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keystone Landfill, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson County Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson County Landfill averages 4.9 TCR (190% of the Landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson County Landfill TCR series: 2019=4 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=7 · BLS 2.6

Where Nelson County Landfill falls in its industry

288 Landfills establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Landfills employers in Kentucky.

Nelson County Landfill (24 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson County Landfill
Nelson County Landfill (24 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nelson County Landfill has fewer employees than the Landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 7.0 7.0 2 0 0
2023 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2021 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.7 3.8 2 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · KY · Bardstown

288 Landfills 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 Keystone Landfill, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03099 - RCI Fitchburg Landfill 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04533 - Superior Landfill 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford County Public Works 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE john wayne 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elizabethtown Storeroom & Service Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Meter Department 24 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 1284 PYP Rialto 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach Hauling - Republic Services 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MNM006 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexaust Company, Incorporated 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Famco Enterprises 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lansing Building Products-Orlando 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE NESSteel Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winona Library 24 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.