Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Kentucky

Nelson County Road Department

Bardstown, KY · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson County Road Department runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Nelson County Road Department: 6.3 TCR = 223% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson County Road Department safety composite

Nelson County Road Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Road Department: 4.9 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Nelson County Road Department's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.9 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bardstown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 223% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #40/51
  • PHOTO Winston Salem Northe…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winston Salem Northern Belt Way (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson County Road Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson County Road Department averages 6.3 TCR (223% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson County Road Department TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=16.4 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Nelson County Road Department falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #40 safest of 51 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Kentucky.

Nelson County Road Department (19 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson County Road Department
Nelson County Road Department (19 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Nelson County Road Department has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2024 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 16.4 16.4 3 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KY · Bardstown

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Winston Salem Northern Belt Way 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR D2 Mt Carroll Yard 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 4 - Bldg B 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR E & B Paving LLC - FLEET MAINTENANCE 6.2 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 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 Finnish American Village 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson + Hanson Houston Landscape Architecture 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseville Grocery Outlet 6.3 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.