Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services · Kentucky

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs)

Louisville, KY · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs): 5.4 TCR = 120% of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) safety composite

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−0.8

2016→2018

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) injury rate improved

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs)'s TCR fell 0.8 from 6.9 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO 2073-ASA-20730105-MX
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2073-ASA-20730105-MX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) averages 5.4 TCR (120% of the Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services BLS benchmark).

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

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) falls in its industry

992 Aircraft Maintenance and Repai establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Aircraft Maintenance and Repai employers in Kentucky.

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs)
Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) (31 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Wheel & Brake Shop (Kywbs) has fewer employees than the Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2017 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.9 6.9 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · KY · Louisville

992 Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services 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 2073-ASA-20730105-MX 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-SW-20730146-MX 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tyonek Services Group Inc. Eustis 128 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MHI RJ Aviation Inc. - Macon Service Center 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 64 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlisle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geothermal Earthworks Inc 31 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 2073-ASA-20730105-MX 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Case Goods/Corporate Office 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-48180052-111 Riverbend Dr-Wc 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morris (Mnmor) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yreka (Cayre) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus Oh - Eww (Ohcbs) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa (Okuls) 31 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.