Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics · Kentucky

OVC Central Plant

Stearns, KY · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OVC Central Plant runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade D.

OVC Central Plant: 5.2 TCR = 157% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OVC Central Plant safety composite

OVC Central Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

OVC Central Plant held a steady TCR band

OVC Central Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.3 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Stearns, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Rite Hite Environmen…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rite Hite Environmental Enclosures (0.0 TCR gap)

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OVC Central Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OVC Central Plant averages 5.2 TCR (157% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

OVC Central Plant TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=3 · BLS 3.3

Where OVC Central Plant falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Kentucky.

OVC Central Plant (111 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate OVC Central Plant
OVC Central Plant (111 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

OVC Central Plant has more employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2021 3.0 1.5 5 1 0
2020 9.1 1.5 6 0 0
2017 3.3 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · KY · Stearns

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 6 employers in Stearns, 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 Rite Hite Environmental Enclosures 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Celina Tent, Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Faberkin, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC Humphrys Textiles 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE M&M Service Station Equipment Specialist Inc. 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4524 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024-00309 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 2800 EARHART COURT 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns -Plant 1 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns Mfg 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR OVC Engineered Solutions 75 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-PHLPW9672 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6795-86094B0199 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR J.D. Heiskell & Co. Friona TX 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TrueNorth Steel-Mandan 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services Davenport 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6795-97752B0199 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idaho 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3038-Kelb-Kelberman Syracuse 111 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: 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.