Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Kentucky

Tri-State Plating

Louisville, KY · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tri-State Plating runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Tri-State Plating: 10.4 TCR = 316% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri-State Plating safety composite

Tri-State Plating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Tri-State Plating: 3.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2022

Tri-State Plating's TCR rose 6.0 from 3.0 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 316% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Kryler Corporation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kryler Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tri-State Plating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri-State Plating averages 10.4 TCR (316% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Tri-State Plating TCR series: 2017=3 · 2021=19.4 · 2022=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Tri-State Plating falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Electroplating metals and form employers in Kentucky.

Tri-State Plating (33 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tri-State Plating
Tri-State Plating (33 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Tri-State Plating has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2021 19.4 19.4 1 0 0
2017 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · KY · Louisville

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, 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 Kryler Corporation 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albert Lea Electro Plating, Inc 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Finishing, Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samuel Steel Pickling Company TWI 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Richmond Farm, LLC. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington Operations Center 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Inc. Cave Spring (22) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1166 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Con-Tech Building Components- Troy 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR J G Drywall Company Inc 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bergey's Lincoln 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Pallet, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menco Royal, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pride Solvents and Chemical Co of NY, Inc. 33 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, 2017. 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.