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

OVC Engineered Solutions

Stearns, KY · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OVC Engineered Solutions runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade B.

OVC Engineered Solutions: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OVC Engineered Solutions safety composite

OVC Engineered Solutions scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

OVC Engineered Solutions: 0.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.88× in 2021

OVC Engineered Solutions's TCR rose 5.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Stearns, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Fred's Tents and Can…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fred's Tents and Canopies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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OVC Engineered Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OVC Engineered Solutions averages 1.9 TCR (56% 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 Engineered Solutions TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where OVC Engineered Solutions falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #1 safest of 10 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Kentucky.

OVC Engineered Solutions (75 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Engineered Solutions
OVC Engineered Solutions (75 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

OVC Engineered Solutions has more employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a lower 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 5.6 3.5 8 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 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 Fred's Tents and Canopies, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aztec Tents 2665 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bearse Manufacturing Co 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klein Tools, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danny's Construction Company LLC- Kansas 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mechanical Construction, Inc - Lexington 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Spirnkler Corpration (Louisville, KY) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stearns Mfg 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR OVC Central Plant 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns -Plant 1 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns Plant 1 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Printing 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dupont Teijin Films Richmond 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Village Shalom 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Emerson College Resident Dinin 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cook Incorporated Curry Pike 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alcoa 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-10DC144 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennewick Branch 75 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.