Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Kentucky

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division

Frankfort, KY · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade C.

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division safety composite

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.09 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

−4.5

2017→2019

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division injury rate improved

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division's TCR fell 4.5 from 6.6 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Frankfort, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Seemann Composites, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seemann Composites, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Kentucky employers → · Look up another →

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 30% 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 10 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Kentucky.

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division
Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division (90 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Frnkfort Division has more employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher 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
2019 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2017 6.6 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · KY · Frankfort

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 104 employers in Frankfort, 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 Seemann Composites, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Techmer PM CA 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Distributing 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSDI Specialty Disperions, Inc 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nolin RECC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Office 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blend Pak, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stearns -Plant 1 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYTC Central Office 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Resource Bldg 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montaplast of North America Inc 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR EECSOWER 754 FTE
NAT-TCR kj's market johnsonville 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 2409 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 1826 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1808 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2381 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2359 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2012 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0005 1446 90 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.