Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Welders Supply

Louisville, KY · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welders Supply runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Welders Supply: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welders Supply safety composite

Welders Supply scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Welders Supply: 0.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2023

Welders Supply's TCR rose 6.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #13/24
  • PHOTO Briggs Baton Rouge
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Briggs Baton Rouge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Welders Supply in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Welders Supply averages 2.4 TCR (108% of the Welding machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Welders Supply TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Welders Supply falls in its industry

911 Welding machinery and equipmen establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #13 safest of 24 Welding machinery and equipmen employers in Kentucky.

Welders Supply (68 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Welders Supply
Welders Supply (68 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Welders Supply has more employees than the Welding machinery and equipment merchant median and a lower 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
2023 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2022 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · KY · Louisville

911 Welding machinery and equipment 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 Briggs Baton Rouge 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCAT San Angelo 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06024-06-06-ARLINGTON 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Briggs New Orleans 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richgrove Tobacco 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mason Structure 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. Brian Morrison 68 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 Tallgrass Senior Living 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfall Construction Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Feild Work 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Times Supermarket Kailua 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE All American Maintenance Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rehab Builders, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8807855-Trek Bicycle Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Printful, Inc. (Coppell, Texas) 68 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.