Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing · Kentucky

WC Paducah

Paducah, KY · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WC Paducah runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

WC Paducah: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WC Paducah safety composite

WC Paducah scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2017→2020

WC Paducah injury rate improved

WC Paducah's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.5 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Paducah, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO ITW Insulation Systems
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITW Insulation Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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WC Paducah in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WC Paducah averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WC Paducah TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where WC Paducah falls in its industry

449 Fabricated Metal Product Manuf establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 11 Fabricated Metal Product Manuf employers in Kentucky.

WC Paducah (84 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WC Paducah
WC Paducah (84 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

WC Paducah has more employees than the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2018 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 2.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · KY · Paducah

449 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, 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 ITW Insulation Systems 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Corp 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RPR Products, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Comp Suspension LLC Tap Manufacturing 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trade-Mark Industrial 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkema Inc. Louisville Plant 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daicel Safety Technologies America, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Forged Products - Lebanon 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR Wockhardt USA Morton Grove 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR D08 World Trade Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sendik's Food Market Marquette 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Foremost Graphics Group 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transportation Department 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hughson Nut, Inc - Verduga Facility 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Lifestar Ambulance 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilbert Industries Inc 84 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.