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
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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 2 of 156| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Med Center EMS | Bowling Green | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 21.5 |
| Kybgr - Bowling Green | Bowling Green | Corporate Subsidiary and Re | F | 21.4 |
| Bullitt County Emergency Services | Shepherdsville | Ambulance services, air or g | F | 21.2 |
| Merchants Cold Storage, LLC | Walton | Cold storage warehousing | F | 21.1 |
| Key Assets Kentucky | Lexington | Social workers' , mental hea | F | 21.1 |
| Kentucky Humane Society Animal Rescue Inc. | Louisville | Animal shelters | F | 21.1 |
| Mubea Coil Spring Wire | Florence | Automobile suspension spring | F | 21.1 |
| Two Men and a Truck- NKY | Erlanger | Furniture moving, used | F | 21.1 |
| Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government- Public Works SWMS- Solid Waste Collection | Louisville | Garbage collection services | F | 21.0 |
| Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center | Richmond | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 21.0 |
| 21216 Store 21216 | Winchester | All Other General Merchandis | F | 21.0 |
| Logan Premium Meats and Processing, LLC | Hopkinsville | Beef carcasses, half carcass | F | 20.9 |
| 6458-ZNKL | Independence | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 20.9 |
| 406 | Independence | Couriers and express deliver | F | 20.9 |
| IO - Frankfort | Frankfort | Group homes, intellectual an | F | 20.9 |
| Georgetown-Scott County EMS | Georgetown | Emergency medical transporta | F | 20.7 |
| Kylxt-Opi-Lexington 167 | Lexington | PLASMA COLLECTION | F | 20.6 |
| PetVet Operating dba Hagyard Equine Medical Institute | Lexington | Veterinary services | F | 20.5 |
| LP Taylorsville, LLC- Spencer County | Taylorsville | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 20.4 |
| Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green | Bowling Green | Soft drinks merchant wholesa | F | 20.3 |
| Grade Lane | Louisville | General warehousing and stor | F | 20.3 |
| 204798-Lou-Iroquois Sta | Louisville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 20.3 |
| Airtron Louisville | Louisville | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | F | 20.1 |
| Maeser Heating and Air | Louisville | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 20.0 |
| Actors Theatre of Louisville | Louisville | Theater companies (except da | F | 19.9 |
| Genova-Kentucky, Inc. | Paducah | Fittings, rigid plastics pip | F | 19.9 |
| Cedarhurst Living, LLC - Nicholasville | Nicholasville | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 19.8 |
| Blue Grass Stockyards of Campbellsville | Campbellsville | Livestock Merchant Wholesale | F | 19.8 |
| Kycrt - Louisville | Louisville | Corporate Subsidiary and Re | F | 19.8 |
| 4769-681-Williams Sonoma | Louisville | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | F | 19.6 |
| SCA Lexington Surgery Center | Lexington | Ambulatory surgical centers | F | 19.5 |
| Grant Center | Williamstown | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 19.5 |
| Carl M. Brashear Radcliff Veterans Center | Radcliff | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 19.4 |
| Louisville Jefferson County Metro Govt - Parks & Recreation - Cherokee Park | Louisville | Nature parks | F | 19.3 |
| 002465-120-Shep Ecom Ob Ffl-Dc | Shepherdsville | - | F | 19.1 |
| KY-Berea-Field Office | Berea | - | F | 19.0 |
| Colonial Manufacturing Company | Henderson | Truck bodies assembling on p | F | 19.0 |
| Louisville Jefferson County Metro Government- Public Works Roads East District | Louisville | Sidewalk, public, constructi | F | 18.9 |
| Rivers Bend Retirement Community | Kuttawa | Nursing homes | F | 18.9 |
| Morningside Assisted Living of Hopkinsville | Hopkinsville | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 18.8 |
| Louisville Seating Systems | Shepherdsville | AUTOMOBILE SEAT ASSEMBLY | F | 18.8 |
| 6458-ZELO | Louisville | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 18.8 |
| Whitesburg ARH | Whitesburg | General medical and surgical | F | 18.8 |
| 4186-02999 | Shelbyville | Dollar Stores | F | 18.8 |
| Lex United Ground Express-Lex | Lexington | Other Airport Operations | F | 18.8 |
| SHIVELY_1436337 | Louisville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 18.7 |
| 8807867-Meritor - Florence, KY | Florence | Staffing | F | 18.7 |
| Med Center at Bowling Green Home Care | Bowling Green | Home care of elderly, medica | F | 18.7 |
| 420 | Paducah | Couriers and express deliver | F | 18.7 |
| Transportation Dept | Madisonville | Distribution line, sewer and | F | 18.7 |
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.