Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing · Kentucky

Ykk S & B

Lawrenceburg, KY · ~120 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ykk S & B runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ykk S & B: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ykk S & B safety composite

Ykk S & B scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Ykk S & B: 0.9 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2021

Ykk S & B's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339993 · Lawrenceburg, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P76
  • PHOTO YKK (USA) Inc. Snap …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: YKK (USA) Inc. Snap and Button Products (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ykk S & B in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ykk S & B averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ykk S & B TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ykk S & B falls in its industry

25 Buckles and buckle parts (incl establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ykk S & B (120 employees, TCR 1.9) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 18 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Ykk S & B
Ykk S & B (120 employees, TCR 1.9) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Ykk S & B has more employees than the Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 3.9 1.3 1 2 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 3.5 2.6 4 0 0
2016 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339993 · KY · Lawrenceburg

25 Buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 25 employers in Lawrenceburg, 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 YKK (USA) Inc. Snap and Button Products 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR YKK USA Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR YKK (USA) Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OGS Technologies, LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Azteca Milling, L.P. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Plant 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morehead Wood Products 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE US KY Bowling Green Plant 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR 507 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 507 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Cable Lawrenceburg 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Cable Industries Inc 266 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckeye Power, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tower International 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Univeristy of Nevada, Reno 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nonni's Foods LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-ATLA) 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE CrossRoads Plant 507 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ad-Tech 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viking Pools - WV 120 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.