Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Kentucky

Pulaski County Road Department

Somerset, KY · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pulaski County Road Department runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Pulaski County Road Department: 8.2 TCR = 291% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pulaski County Road Department safety composite

Pulaski County Road Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−10.1

2023→2024

Pulaski County Road Department injury rate improved

Pulaski County Road Department's TCR fell 10.1 from 13.2 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.2 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Somerset, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 291% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #46/51
  • PHOTO SLATE HILL CONSTRUCT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SLATE HILL CONSTRUCTORS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pulaski County Road Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pulaski County Road Department averages 8.2 TCR (291% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Pulaski County Road Department TCR series: 2023=13.2 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Pulaski County Road Department falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #46 safest of 51 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Kentucky.

Pulaski County Road Department (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Pulaski County Road Department
Pulaski County Road Department (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Pulaski County Road Department has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a higher 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 13.2 9.9 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KY · Somerset

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 88 employers in Somerset, 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 SLATE HILL CONSTRUCTORS INC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zak Dirt, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR L.J. Construction, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pember Companies, Inc. 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Brothers Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 60 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU Magnolia Compressor Station 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital 1,346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotetsu America, Inc. 1,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR 689 458 FTE
NAT-TCR River Valley Recycling, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bakersfield Ca 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GFL Environmental Pontiac 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Concise Industries 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Agway of Cape Cod - Orleans 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Boise Parkcenter Independent Living 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Flying Butcher 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Lafayette Airport 30 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.