Machine shops · Kentucky

S & S Tool and Machine Co

Louisville, KY · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S & S Tool and Machine Co runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

S & S Tool and Machine Co: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S & S Tool and Machine Co safety composite

S & S Tool and Machine Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

S & S Tool and Machine Co: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

S & S Tool and Machine Co's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/34
  • PHOTO Hartsgrove Machine, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartsgrove Machine, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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S & S Tool and Machine Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S & S Tool and Machine Co averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

S & S Tool and Machine Co TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where S & S Tool and Machine Co falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 91% 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 #1 safest of 34 Machine shops employers in Kentucky.

S & S Tool and Machine Co (31 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate S & S Tool and Machine Co
S & S Tool and Machine Co (31 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

S & S Tool and Machine Co has fewer employees than the Machine shops 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 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · KY · Louisville

1,821 Machine 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 Hartsgrove Machine, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hansen's Welding, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black River Manufacturing, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 64 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlisle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geothermal Earthworks Inc 31 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 Rochester Electronics LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crimson Resource Management 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TPC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CA081 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metro Hardwood Glendale Heights 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accudyne Systems, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Pool 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Vibratory Feeders 31 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, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.