Academies, college or university · Kentucky

Union College

Barbourville, KY · ~235 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Union College runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade D.

Union College: 2.1 TCR = 149% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union College safety composite

Union College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Union College: 2.1 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 59.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Union College's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.1 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 59.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Barbourville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 149% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Eastern Connecticut …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastern Connecticut State University (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kentucky employers → · Look up another →

Union College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union College averages 2.1 TCR (149% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Union College TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2018=59.8 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3 · BLS 1.4

Where Union College falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Academies, college or universi employers in Kentucky.

Union College (235 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Union College
Union College (235 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Union College has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 3.0 0.0 6 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 5 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.2 0.5 5 0 0
2018 59.8 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.1 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · KY · Barbourville

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 16 employers in Barbourville, 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 Eastern Connecticut State University 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MINNESOTA WEST COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE Canby 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bastyr University 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spurlock Generating Station 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borden Dairy Company LLC (London, KY) 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Honeywell Intelligrated - Danville 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Douglas Autotech Corporation 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital Drive 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barbourville ARH 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barbourville Health & Rehabilitation Center 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1189 130 FTE
NAT-TCR Owego #216 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Events DC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Services, LLC - Kelso Branch 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Zipp 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Fish & Game (1) 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bauer Compressors, Inc 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Orchards Management 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Emerald Rd Prd Sc 235 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.