Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing · Kentucky

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant

Louisville, KY · ~147 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant safety composite

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Hartville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hartville (0.0 TCR gap)

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UW Solutions - Grassland Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UW Solutions - Grassland Plant averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant TCR series: 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where UW Solutions - Grassland Plant falls in its industry

405 Novelties, wood fiber, manufac establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Novelties, wood fiber, manufac employers in Kentucky.

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant (147 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UW Solutions - Grassland Plant
UW Solutions - Grassland Plant (147 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

UW Solutions - Grassland Plant has more employees than the Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · KY · Louisville

405 Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing 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 Hartville 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Rustic Fence Co 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heath Outdoor Products 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartselle Molded Plugs - A504 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE AGI Polymatrix, LLC dba Westfall Technik 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2592 LOWE S OF SHELBYVILLE KY 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-14136000-14136 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE LP Morgantown, LLC 147 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 Wyoming 10173 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Beloit 10005 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo 10283 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance Construction Solutions 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley Packaging Industries, Inc. 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Customer Service Group Crystal Lake Customer Care Center 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE HoneywellNY15 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Cypress Gardens 147 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. 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.