Employer · Kentucky

Southern States Hardin Coop

Elizabethtown, KY · ~17 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Hardin Coop runs at 837% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern States Hardin Coop: 18.4 TCR = 837% of industry BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Hardin Coop safety composite

Southern States Hardin Coop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2017→2023

Southern States Hardin Coop injury rate improved

Southern States Hardin Coop's TCR fell 1.2 from 7.5 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 45.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2019=45.8 · 2020=32.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Elizabethtown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 837% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Sanborn
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanborn (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern States Hardin Coop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Hardin Coop averages 18.4 TCR (837% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Hardin Coop TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2019=45.8 · 2020=32.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern States Hardin Coop falls in its industry

1,202 industry establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #14 safest of 14 industry employers in Kentucky.

Southern States Hardin Coop (17 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Hardin Coop
Southern States Hardin Coop (17 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern States Hardin Coop has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher 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
2023 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 32.6 32.6 5 0 0
2019 45.8 45.8 6 0 0
2017 7.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · KY · Elizabethtown

1,202 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sanborn 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Origination, LLC - Maplewood 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Two Rivers Terminal Moses Lake 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3315_6338 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Radius Construction Co Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Brothers, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuff Shed Store 270 - Louisville - NTH 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lee Building Products (Owensboro) 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Memorial Hospital 2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Hardin 2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etown 956 FTE
NAT-TCR 382106-Day-P L Dunbar Br 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 173589-Hmd-Highland Br 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Champaign 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Place at The Trace 18.4 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.