Ship painting contractors · Kentucky

Paducah River Painting

Calvert City, KY · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paducah River Painting runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ship painting contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Paducah River Painting: 4.7 TCR = 168% of Ship painting contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paducah River Painting safety composite

Paducah River Painting scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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)
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.7

2016→2023

Paducah River Painting injury rate improved

Paducah River Painting's TCR fell 14.7 from 14.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Calvert City, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Merit Professional C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merit Professional Coatings Holdings LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paducah River Painting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paducah River Painting averages 4.7 TCR (168% of the Ship painting contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Paducah River Painting TCR series: 2016=14.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Paducah River Painting falls in its industry

582 Ship painting contractors establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Ship painting contractors employers in Kentucky.

Paducah River Painting (29 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Paducah River Painting
Paducah River Painting (29 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Paducah River Painting has fewer employees than the Ship painting contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 14.7 12.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · KY · Calvert City

582 Ship painting contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 41 employers in Calvert City, 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 Merit Professional Coatings Holdings LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spruce Painting, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Higham Company Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bremen 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robards Hatchery 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covington Service Center 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joint Sewer Agency 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISP Chemicals, LLC an Ashland Company 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Vinyl's Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Calvert City 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkema Inc. Calvert City Plant 257 FTE
NAT-TCR OU Children's Hospital EVS 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 115 - Palm Beach 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottages Huntsville 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nichols College 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply-Waco 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE PNW Livehaul - OR 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherryvale Rockford IL Thrift Store 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peach Street Distillers 29 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.