Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Kentucky

Somerset Biofuel, Inc

Somerset, KY · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Somerset Biofuel, Inc runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Somerset Biofuel, Inc: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Somerset Biofuel, Inc safety composite

Somerset Biofuel, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Somerset Biofuel, Inc: 6.0 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Somerset Biofuel, Inc's TCR rose 7.0 from 6.0 in 2022 to 13.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Somerset, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Caviness Woodworking…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caviness Woodworking Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Somerset Biofuel, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Somerset Biofuel, Inc averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Somerset Biofuel, Inc TCR series: 2022=6 · 2023=0 · 2024=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Somerset Biofuel, Inc falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Kentucky.

Somerset Biofuel, Inc (19 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Somerset Biofuel, Inc
Somerset Biofuel, Inc (19 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Somerset Biofuel, Inc has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 13.0 4.3 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · KY · Somerset

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Caviness Woodworking Co. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Timber Producs - Spectrum Division 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1880 Diamond Street 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MRE Crossville, LLC 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Plant 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A L Baumgartner Construction Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judy Construction Company - 202104 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Madisonville - Wastewater Collection 19 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 Tague Lumber, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Basin Material Handling-Indiana 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6800-DRC-AUBURN 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hialeah Park Casino 6.3 TCR

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. 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.