Paint and Coating Manufacturing · Kentucky

USA KY Richmond Plant

Richmond, KY · ~343 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA KY Richmond Plant runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Paint and Coating Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

USA KY Richmond Plant: 2.0 TCR = 62% of Paint and Coating Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA KY Richmond Plant safety composite

USA KY Richmond Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2020→2024

USA KY Richmond Plant injury rate improved

USA KY Richmond Plant's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.9 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Richmond, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO Union Specialties Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Union Specialties Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA KY Richmond Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA KY Richmond Plant averages 2.0 TCR (62% of the Paint and Coating Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

USA KY Richmond Plant TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where USA KY Richmond Plant falls in its industry

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Paint and Coating Manufacturin employers in Kentucky.

USA KY Richmond Plant (343 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate USA KY Richmond Plant
USA KY Richmond Plant (343 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

USA KY Richmond Plant has more employees than the Paint and Coating Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 1.3 1.0 4 0 0
2023 2.5 1.9 8 0 0
2022 2.0 1.1 7 0 0
2021 2.5 0.9 8 0 0
2020 1.9 0.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · KY · Richmond

530 Paint and Coating Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 100 employers in Richmond, 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 Union Specialties Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF - Bristol/Levittown 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ozark Materials LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US IL Chicago Plant 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kimberly Clark Professionals 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 1 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE 729 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northkey Community Care 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Grass Chem. Demil. 947 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Richmond 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heath Richmond 604 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chem Demil US KY Richmond KY KY997 539 FTE
NAT-TCR Hattie Larlham Center for Children with Disabilities 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burnside 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield Factory 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LTM, Incorporated dba Knife River Materials Roseburg 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poly Trucking 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunbelt Controls 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0043 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kahului Campus 343 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. 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.