Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing · Kentucky

Pleatco (Apel)

Louisville, KY · ~113 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pleatco (Apel) runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pleatco (Apel): 4.9 TCR = 149% of Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pleatco (Apel) safety composite

Pleatco (Apel) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2023→2024

Pleatco (Apel) injury rate improved

Pleatco (Apel)'s TCR fell 0.9 from 5.4 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.4 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO CVI NC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CVI NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pleatco (Apel) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pleatco (Apel) averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pleatco (Apel) TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Pleatco (Apel) falls in its industry

232 Air purification equipment, st establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Air purification equipment, st employers in Kentucky.

Pleatco (Apel) (113 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pleatco (Apel)
Pleatco (Apel) (113 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Pleatco (Apel) has more employees than the Air purification equipment, stationary, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 4.5 4.5 5 0 0
2023 5.4 4.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · KY · Louisville

232 Air purification equipment, stationary, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 CVI NC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robinson Fans PA Plant 1 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & W Acuquistions, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&P USA Ventilation Systems LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - Wilson Station 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Simpsonville Data Center, DCC, & TCC 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE DK Construction 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Standard Group LLC - KY 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Eagle Eye Nogales 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Transpro Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwall Nursing Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha Ne - 248 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Celebration Village Acworth 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Clifton Fruit Company 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mirror Lake Recovery Center 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Health and Rehabilitation Center 113 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. 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.