Mechanical contractors · Kentucky

Ward Engineering Company, Inc.

Louisville, KY · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mechanical contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Ward Engineering Company, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 51% of Mechanical contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. safety composite

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Ward Engineering Company, Inc.: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ward Engineering Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/79
  • PHOTO Tudi Mechanical Syst…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tudi Mechanical Systems of Tampa, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Engineering Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Engineering Company, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (51% of the Mechanical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Ward Engineering Company, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Mechanical contractors establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 79 Mechanical contractors employers in Kentucky.

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ward Engineering Company, Inc.
Ward Engineering Company, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ward Engineering Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Mechanical contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · KY · Louisville

5,793 Mechanical contractors 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 Tudi Mechanical Systems of Tampa, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haydon Construction Incorporated 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Air Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Mechanical INC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 830 Grassy Springs 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 222-NiSource-Ashland KY-Service Cent 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3510 COLEMAN RD PADUCAH KY 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE INTEC Group LLC 26 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 Tudi Mechanical Systems of Tampa, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jones Hall 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S.J.Amoroso Construction Co. LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shrock Prefab, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Songwon International Americas, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feriwood 26 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, 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.