TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.0 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Kentucky workplace safety
How 7,805 OSHA-reporting employers across Kentucky compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 6,792 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 7,805
- Employers
- 5.0
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 170,117
- Injuries (all)
- 164
- Fatalities (all)
Kentucky vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
7,805 23rd of 54 higher than 31 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Kentucky's 6,792 rated reporting employers average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.8 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.0
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 6,792
- rated employers
- 7,805
- all reporting employers
- 170,117
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 7,805 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 17% B · 14% C · 29% D · 20% F · 20%
20% of Kentucky's reporting establishments earn an F and 17% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Kentucky ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRKentucky's average TCR of 5.0 is lower than 70% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Kentucky is #17 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 6,792-employer subset), it's #52 of 54, a 35-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Kentucky Workplaces Compare
Kentucky hosts 7,805 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Kentucky cohort, workers have logged 170,117 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 6,792 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 164 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Kentucky, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Kentucky, by injury rate
Page 125 of 156| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baptist Health CBC | Louisville | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | A | 1.0 |
| Signode Industrial Group, LLC | Florence | Packaging, plastics (e.g., b | A | 1.0 |
| United Propane Gas, Inc. | Paducah | Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG | A | 1.0 |
| Midland Electric Company, Inc. | Louisville | Low voltage electrical work | A | 1.0 |
| Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. | Harrodsburg | Automobiles assembling on ch | A | 1.0 |
| Lexington Sheet Plant | Lexington | - | A | 1.0 |
| CKY Operations/Shared Services Headquarters | Louisville | Blood pressure screening fac | A | 1.0 |
| Eleanor Beard Studio, LLC | Hardinsburg | Linens (e.g., bath, bed, tab | A | 1.0 |
| Big Sandy Plant | Catlettsburgh | Activated carbon or charcoal | A | 1.0 |
| Vna Health at Home Lexington | Lexington | Home health agencies | A | 1.0 |
| Boyd County Judicial Center | Catlettsburg | Courts | A | 1.0 |
| M2 Louisville Tenant LLC | Louisville | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.0 |
| Williamson Group | Louisville | Food coloring, natural, manu | A | 1.0 |
| Brown Trucking Company Bowling Green | Bowling Green | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.0 |
| Danville Save-A-Lot | Danville | Grocery stores | A | 1.0 |
| MPD, Inc. Main Campus | Owensboro | Microwave components manufac | A | 1.0 |
| Duro Bag - Walton | Walton | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | A | 1.0 |
| KSBar and Grille | Lexington | Full service restaurants | A | 1.0 |
| Tarter Tank | Dunnville | Water tanks, heavy gauge met | A | 1.0 |
| Carter Kitchen & Bath 405 | Jeffersontown | BUILDING MATERIALS DEALER | A | 1.0 |
| Dart Container Polymers | Owensboro | Polystyrene resins manufactu | A | 1.0 |
| Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : ANCRA Hebron | Hebron | manufacturer of metal cargo | A | 1.0 |
| Central Track Services | Frankfort | Maintenance of rights-of-way | A | 1.0 |
| Glenro Inc. | Maysville | Infrared ovens, industrial, | A | 1.0 |
| Louisville 38050 | Louisville | Landscape Maintenance | A | 1.0 |
| Henkel Louisville. (SMRU80613) | Louisville | Motor Freight Transportation | A | 1.0 |
| Roses 188 | Elizabethtown | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.0 |
| Hill Street | Louisville | Sodium aluminate manufacturi | A | 1.0 |
| Resource Center | Louisville | Corporate offices | D | 1.0 |
| Expeditors - SDF | Louisville | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 1.0 |
| The Pavilion at Kenton | Covington | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.0 |
| MPW Industrial Services, Inc. - Toyota Georgetown | Georgetown | Base facilities operation su | A | 1.0 |
| Messer Construction Co. - Lousville Region | Louisville | Commercial building construc | A | 1.0 |
| Ryder System Inc. | Mount Sterling | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.0 |
| Boc-Kugo Operations | Louisville | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.0 |
| Irvine Supply Chain Operations Center | Irvine | Centralized administrative o | D | 0.9 |
| BMC Contracting LLC - Mount Sterling, KY | Mount Sterling | Excavating, earthmoving, or | A | 0.9 |
| Ruskin Company | Lexington | Sheet Metal | A | 0.9 |
| Duro Bag - Florence | Florence | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | A | 0.9 |
| US KY Louisville Plant | Louisville | PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTUR | A | 0.9 |
| Calvert City Lumber Co. | Calvert City | Building materials supply de | A | 0.9 |
| S & S Tool and Machine Co | Louisville | Machine shops | A | 0.9 |
| Graves Gilbert Clinic - Primecare | Bowling Green | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | A | 0.9 |
| Sodexo at Chi Saint Joseph East | Lexington | Food Service Contractors | A | 0.9 |
| Drury Inn & Suites - Paducah | Paducah | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 0.9 |
| Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Lexington, KY-USA | Lexington | - | A | 0.9 |
| Cane Run Station | Louisville | Electric power generation, f | B | 0.9 |
| Mb-Nicholasville | Nicholasville | Prefabricated Metal Building | A | 0.9 |
| Human Resource Bldg | Frankfort | Child welfare services | A | 0.9 |
| Preferred Construction Services, Inc. | Henderson | Roofing contractors | A | 0.9 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Kentucky: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.0 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,805 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.