Packaging machinery manufacturing · Kentucky

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY

Name: R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Covington, KY · ~265 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Packaging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY safety composite

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY held a steady TCR band

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.4 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.4 · 2017=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Covington, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #1/5
PHOTO Fort Dearborn Corpor…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~265 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fort Dearborn Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.5
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0.5

What this shows R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Packaging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY falls in its industry

269 Packaging machinery manufactur establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Packaging machinery manufactur employers in Kentucky.

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY (265 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

R.A Jones & Co. - Covington, KY has more employees than the Packaging machinery manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2017	0.7	0.7	2	0	0
2016	0.4	0.4	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · KY · Covington

269 Packaging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 77 employers in Covington, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fort Dearborn Corporation	BRUNSWICK, GA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Viking Masek Packaging Technologies, LLC	OOSTBURG, WI	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LOVESHAW	SOUTH CANAAN, PA	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Thiele Technologies Fergus Falls	FERGUS FALLS, MN	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Central Maintenance Facility	LOUISVILLE	265 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Clark Distributing Co., Inc.	OAKLAND	265 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1048	WILLIAMSBURG	265 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LHS/Services Hammond Plaza	HOPKINSVILLE	265 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Taylor Farms	Covington	747 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Club Chef LLC	Covington	530 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Covington	Covington	386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northkey Community Care	Covington	343 FTE
NAT-TCR	Textron Specialized Vehicles - EZGO Sales	Augusta, GA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	TRW Automotive-Atkins	Atkins, VA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Plant 47	Ringgold, GA	0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	CN Atlanta	Atlanta, GA	0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hammond/East Lake (Inham)	Hammond, IN	265 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies	Mahtomedi, MN	265 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HNVAMD14	Hanover, MD	265 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GA.ATLAN.348 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.	Atlanta, GA	265 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: 2017, 2016. 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.