Steel manufacturing · Kentucky

SWVA Kentucky, LLC.

Ashland, KY · ~140 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

SWVA Kentucky, LLC.: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. safety composite

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

SWVA Kentucky, LLC.: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

SWVA Kentucky, LLC.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Ashland, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO Vulcraft of New York
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vulcraft of New York (0.0 TCR gap)

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SWVA Kentucky, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SWVA Kentucky, LLC. averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where SWVA Kentucky, LLC. falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Steel manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. (140 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SWVA Kentucky, LLC.
SWVA Kentucky, LLC. (140 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

SWVA Kentucky, LLC. has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 1.8 0.7 13 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · KY · Ashland

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 79 employers in Ashland, 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 Vulcraft of New York 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Birmingham, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-America Manufacturing Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Steel Arizona 2 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clay Ingels Company, LLC. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Sprinkler Corporation (Company Totals) 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE LONDON KY PLANT 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Winchester 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital 1,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1426 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1426 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Rig 26 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gemini Grain Port Location 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Decatur Glycols 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fulton County Processing 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patin Construction LLC 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 056-PL001 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autism Learning Partners Fresno 140 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.