Academies, college or university · Kentucky

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County

Lexington, KY · ~11,013 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade D.

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County: 2.1 TCR = 147% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County safety composite

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2018→2020

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County injury rate improved

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.5 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.5 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Umpqua Community Col…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 626 inj
  • SIZE ~11,013 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Umpqua Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County averages 2.1 TCR (147% 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

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County TCR series: 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #4 safest of 5 Academies, college or universi employers in Kentucky.

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County (11,013 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 05,00010,00015,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County
University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County (11,013 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County has more 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
2020 1.4 0.8 141 0 0
2019 2.2 1.3 217 1 0
2018 2.5 1.6 268 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · KY · Lexington

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, 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 Umpqua Community College 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Technical College 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISU - University Wide 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toyota Motor Mfg Kentucky, Inc 10,036 FTE
STATE-SIZE UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
STATE-SIZE WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Whitaker Family 3,895 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - North Lexington 3,885 FTE
NAT-TCR 40785 - Socal Fleet Mmu 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2349-Eloy, AZ 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RSD 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridgecrest Regional Hospital Sydnor Building 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island 11,183 FTE
NAT-SIZE UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
NAT-SIZE UC Santa Barbara 10,779 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.