Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric, manufacturing · Kentucky

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman

Hickman, KY · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman safety composite

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman: 1.9 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2022

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman's TCR rose 4.7 from 1.9 in 2021 to 6.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335991 · Hickman, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Pyrotek Sanborn
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pyrotek Sanborn (0.1 TCR gap)

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Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman falls in its industry

93 Carbon electrodes and contacts establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 Carbon electrodes and contacts employers in Kentucky.

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman (70 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman
Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman (70 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Tokai Carbon GE LLC - Hickman has fewer employees than the Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 6.7 1.3 5 0 0
2021 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335991 · KY · Hickman

93 Carbon electrodes and contacts, electric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hickman, 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 Pyrotek Sanborn 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mitsubishi Chemical Carbon Fiber and Composites, Inc, Carbon Fiber Division 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graftech USA LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGL Carbon LLC 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Pipeline Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bristol Group 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & S Installation Services LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rizzo Brothers Painting Contractors, Inc 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tokai Carbon GE LLC Hickman 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tokai Carbon GE - Hickman Facility 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Insteel Wire Products KYW 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Insteel Wire Products - Hickman, KY 37 FTE
NAT-TCR 1207 New Lenox School District #122 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Canterbury Healthcare 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100644 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DKM Sales 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #299 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown International LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angelina Tank 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-TLH 70 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.