Machine shops · Kentucky

Whelan Machine & Tool

Louisville, KY · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whelan Machine & Tool runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Whelan Machine & Tool: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whelan Machine & Tool safety composite

Whelan Machine & Tool scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Whelan Machine & Tool: 1.4 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Whelan Machine & Tool's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.4 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/34
  • PHOTO Graham Research Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graham Research Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whelan Machine & Tool in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whelan Machine & Tool averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Whelan Machine & Tool TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Whelan Machine & Tool falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 34 Machine shops employers in Kentucky.

Whelan Machine & Tool (70 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Whelan Machine & Tool
Whelan Machine & Tool (70 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Whelan Machine & Tool has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.1 0.0 4 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · KY · Louisville

1,821 Machine shops 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 Graham Research Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexible Automation Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SourceOne 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxcess - Tidland Camas WA 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Pipeline Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bristol Group 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & S Installation Services LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rizzo Brothers Painting Contractors, Inc 70 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 Pride Mobility Products Duryea 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR John R Wooden Middle School 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MAG Aerospace Industries LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlstedt's, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Highland Industrial Park, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doris Italian Market Sunrise 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ditta Enterprises, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norwalt Design Inc. 70 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. 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.