General automotive repair shops · Kentucky

Republic Diesel - Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Republic Diesel - Louisville runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General automotive repair shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Republic Diesel - Louisville: 5.0 TCR = 239% of General automotive repair shops BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Republic Diesel - Louisville safety composite

Republic Diesel - Louisville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Republic Diesel - Louisville: 3.6 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Republic Diesel - Louisville's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.6 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811111 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 239% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Greater Southern Uta…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greater Southern Utah Collision Repair, dba Dealer Collision (0.0 TCR gap)

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Republic Diesel - Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Republic Diesel - Louisville averages 5.0 TCR (239% of the General automotive repair shops BLS benchmark).

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

Republic Diesel - Louisville TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=6.4 · BLS 2.1

Where Republic Diesel - Louisville falls in its industry

609 General automotive repair shop establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 General automotive repair shop employers in Kentucky.

Republic Diesel - Louisville (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Republic Diesel - Louisville
Republic Diesel - Louisville (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Republic Diesel - Louisville has more employees than the General automotive repair shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 6.4 0.0 4 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811111 · KY · Louisville

609 General automotive repair shops 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 Greater Southern Utah Collision Repair, dba Dealer Collision 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummins Sales and Service - Springfield 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HBL Automotive dba Lindsay Acura 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Truck Sales and Service - Swedesboro 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE W Principles, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lyons Company, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling works Somerset 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEKRI - Corbin DC 58 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 TAMKO - Green Cove 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ERCO Interior Systems, INC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garland Road Nursing & Rehab Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ames Performance Engineering (02035) 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living Facility 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schluter Systems - Reno 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden N and R LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa 58 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.