Frit manufacturing · Kentucky

Protective Coatings Division

Florence, KY · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protective Coatings Division runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Frit manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Protective Coatings Division: 3.6 TCR = 111% of Frit manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protective Coatings Division safety composite

Protective Coatings Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Protective Coatings Division: 2.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Protective Coatings Division's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.1 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Florence, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Hentzen Coatings, In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hentzen Coatings, Inc. Batavia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protective Coatings Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protective Coatings Division averages 3.6 TCR (111% of the Frit manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Protective Coatings Division TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2018=5.3 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Protective Coatings Division falls in its industry

530 Frit manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Frit manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Protective Coatings Division (49 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Protective Coatings Division
Protective Coatings Division (49 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Protective Coatings Division has fewer employees than the Frit manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2018 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · KY · Florence

530 Frit manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 181 employers in Florence, 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 Hentzen Coatings, Inc. Batavia 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemini Industries El Reno Location 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City (Versa Flex) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baril Coatings USA, LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fleming-Mason Energy Cooperative 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Kentucky Water District Ft Thomas Treatment Plant 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE System Operations Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parco Constructors Group, LLC 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Healthcare Florence 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil CVG 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch Automotive Steering, LLC 687 FTE
CITY-NEAR AS - Automotive Steering 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Libra Electric Co 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Injection Molding Solutions 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Underground, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plum Creek Market Place 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arlington National Cemetery Tours Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE R.B. Robinson Contracting, Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transport National LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Stamp Co., Inc. 49 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.