Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics · Kentucky

Stearns Mfg

Stearns, KY · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stearns Mfg runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade F.

Stearns Mfg: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stearns Mfg safety composite

Stearns Mfg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Stearns Mfg: 5.8 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2024

Stearns Mfg's TCR rose 1.0 from 5.8 in 2022 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Stearns, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Central Textil
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Textil (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stearns Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stearns Mfg averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Stearns Mfg TCR series: 2022=5.8 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Stearns Mfg falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Kentucky.

Stearns Mfg (75 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Stearns Mfg
Stearns Mfg (75 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Stearns Mfg has more employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 6.8 1.4 5 0 0
2023 7.4 0.0 5 0 0
2022 5.8 1.6 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · KY · Stearns

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 6 employers in Stearns, 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 Central Textil 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canvas Craft Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur IL 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carefree of Colorado - Broomfield 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danny's Construction Company LLC- Kansas 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mechanical Construction, Inc - Lexington 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Spirnkler Corpration (Louisville, KY) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE OVC Engineered Solutions 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR OVC Central Plant 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns -Plant 1 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stearns Plant 1 72 FTE
NAT-TCR West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR UA Houston Club E12 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Keefe Millwork 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4742 Lacey 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant 262 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6025 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ag Processing Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMG - Gasser & Sons LLC 75 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. 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.