Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Kentucky

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc

Owensboro, KY · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc safety composite

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc held a steady TCR band

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO PAUL MUELLER COMPANY
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAUL MUELLER COMPANY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Kentucky.

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc
Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 12.5 6.2 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · KY · Owensboro

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 PAUL MUELLER COMPANY 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Permian Tank & Manufacturing, Inc.- Tank Shop 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Steel Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Manufacturing Division 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Castleton Lyons, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hermitage Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coldiron Office- Magnum Hunter Production 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Lindenwold 10538 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hood Container Wilmington 151 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Living Concepts, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Production Automation Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parke County Rural Electric Membership Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Shade 10215 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery 10198 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKeesport 10192 35 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.