Refrigeration equipment and supplies, commercial-type, merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc.

Louisville, KY · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. runs at 497% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refrigeration equipment and supplies, commercial-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc.: 10.9 TCR = 497% of Refrigeration equipment and supplies, commercial-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. safety composite

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc.: 4.9 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc.'s TCR rose 13.9 from 4.9 in 2021 to 18.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423740 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 497% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Thermo King Michigan…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thermo King Michigan, Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. averages 10.9 TCR (497% of the Refrigeration equipment and supplies, commercial-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.9 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=18.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. falls in its industry

65 Refrigeration equipment and su establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc.
Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Vittitow Refrigeration, Inc. has more employees than the Refrigeration equipment and supplies, co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 18.9 9.4 8 0 0
2023 9.7 7.3 4 0 0
2022 10.3 5.2 4 0 0
2021 4.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423740 · KY · Louisville

65 Refrigeration equipment and supplies, commercial-type, merchant wholesalers 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 Thermo King Michigan, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAK47 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermo King of Birmingham 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PH 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lexington Substation Dept. & Relay 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Compressor Station 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057 Mercer Rd 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Work 38 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DCA6 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLD1 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutherland's Foodservice 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian manufacturing 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Turner Transportation Specialists, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kruse Tool & Die, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Electric 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Sky Linen & Uniform 38 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. 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.