Gutters and down spouts, plastics, manufacturing · Kentucky

Preferred Plastics Inc

Louisville, KY · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Preferred Plastics Inc runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gutters and down spouts, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Preferred Plastics Inc: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Gutters and down spouts, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Plastics Inc safety composite

Preferred Plastics Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Preferred Plastics Inc held a steady TCR band

Preferred Plastics Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2022=10.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #32/59
  • PHOTO Global Enterprises
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Enterprises (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred Plastics Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred Plastics Inc averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Gutters and down spouts, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Preferred Plastics Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2022=10.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred Plastics Inc falls in its industry

2,838 Gutters and down spouts, plast establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 59 Gutters and down spouts, plast employers in Kentucky.

Preferred Plastics Inc (20 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Preferred Plastics Inc
Preferred Plastics Inc (20 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Preferred Plastics Inc has fewer employees than the Gutters and down spouts, plastics, manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.4 5.2 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · KY · Louisville

2,838 Gutters and down spouts, plastics, 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 Global Enterprises 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR fuling plastic usa 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toter - Del Rio 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Renal Therapeutics dba Artemis Plastics 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daysville 20 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 Kapolei Mission Services 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mared Mechanical Contractors Corp 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pensacola Florida 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ward Manufacturing Co.-Evanston 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of White Bear Lake - Sports Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smart Commercial Construction, Co. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCoy Construction & Forestry - Grand Rapids 20 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, 2022, 2018. 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.