Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Kentucky

Pennebaker

Bardstown, KY · ~99 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pennebaker runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Pennebaker: 2.2 TCR = 50% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pennebaker safety composite

Pennebaker scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2017→2024

Pennebaker injury rate improved

Pennebaker's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Bardstown, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #19/47
  • PHOTO Core Carrier Corpora…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core Carrier Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pennebaker in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pennebaker averages 2.2 TCR (50% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Pennebaker TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Pennebaker falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #19 safest of 47 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Kentucky.

Pennebaker (99 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pennebaker
Pennebaker (99 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Pennebaker has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis median and a lower 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 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2023 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.9 2.9 4 0 0
2019 3.6 2.9 5 0 0
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KY · Bardstown

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Core Carrier Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sisbro, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schmidt Transportation Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knight Refrigerated Lakeland 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bremen, KY C1-011 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Henderson Mill 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kokoku Rubber Inc. KY Factory Manufacturing Division 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conco, Inc. 99 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 Sodexo at Wayne County Nursing Home 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wadena Workforce Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S04157 - Moreno Valley Hauling 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Knutson Construction Minneapolis 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dgdg 16, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oliver Technologies Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE C340 Charleston 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0015 Riverside 99 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.