Dental laboratory equipment manufacturing · Kentucky

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY

Louisville, KY · ~161 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dental laboratory equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Dental laboratory equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY safety composite

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY: 3.8 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2017

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.8 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339114 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO Ultradent Products I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ultradent Products Inc - Machine Shop (0.1 TCR gap)

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Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Dental laboratory equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY falls in its industry

111 Dental laboratory equipment ma establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY (161 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY
Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY (161 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY has more employees than the Dental laboratory equipment manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017 4.5 2.3 5 1 0
2016 3.8 1.5 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339114 · KY · Louisville

111 Dental laboratory equipment manufacturing 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 Ultradent Products Inc - Machine Shop 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chips West Chicago 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dental Componets inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Dental 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menzner Hardwoods Co. Kentucky 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&H Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Faurecia Exhaust Systems 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE 026-00509 161 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 Denver Brick Plant 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Oh - Eww (Ohcbs) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bemidji (Mnbem) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome (Garom) 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pototoc Spring 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0053 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bremerton (Wabre) 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk (Vanor) 161 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: 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.