Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel · Kentucky

Star Manufacturing Inc

Lexington, KY · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Manufacturing Inc runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Star Manufacturing Inc: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Manufacturing Inc safety composite

Star Manufacturing Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−8.4

2018→2022

Star Manufacturing Inc injury rate improved

Star Manufacturing Inc's TCR fell 8.4 from 12.5 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.5 · 2022=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Coilplus CT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coilplus CT (0.1 TCR gap)

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Star Manufacturing Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Manufacturing Inc averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel BLS benchmark).

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

Star Manufacturing Inc TCR series: 2018=12.5 · 2022=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Star Manufacturing Inc falls in its industry

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g employers in Kentucky.

Star Manufacturing Inc (100 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Manufacturing Inc
Star Manufacturing Inc (100 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Star Manufacturing Inc has more employees than the Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, pl median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 4.1 0.0 3 1 0
2018 12.5 3.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · KY · Lexington

206 Cold rolling steel shapes (e.g., bar, plate, rod, sheet, strip) made from purchased steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 Coilplus CT 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAC Products Shelby Rollform 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stanley Black and Decker 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nimthor Delta 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reynolds Sealing & Striping 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4184 Bowling Green Box Plant 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Comms Radcliff - 0220-KYRA1 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercer Road Building 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Schmidt Baking Company 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Curry Rail Services 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HOU - Maintenance 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Orlando Universal 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reading Alloys 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of Albany 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eden Foods Headquarters 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 41SB 100 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: 2022, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.