State profile · OSHA ITA
Kentucky workplace safety
How 7,805 OSHA-reporting employers across Kentucky compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 7,805
- Employers
- 5.0
- Avg TCR
- 170,117
- Injuries
- 164
- Fatalities
The state picture
Kentucky's 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 · per 100 workers
- 7,805
- employers reporting
- 170,117
- recordable injuries
- 164
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Kentucky is #17 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 33 of 156| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Steel Inc. | Mount Sterling | Rods, metal (except precious | F | 6.8 |
| Wm 584 | Dry Ridge | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 6.8 |
| Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH | Louisville | Healthcare | C | 6.8 |
| GreenLane HD, LLC | Paducah | Truck repair shops, general | F | 6.8 |
| RK-008-Henderson ( RK-008 ) | Henderson | Farm Supply Store | F | 6.8 |
| Masterson's Food and Drink, Inc. | Louisville | Caterers | F | 6.8 |
| Sportable Scoreboards, Inc. | Murray | Electrical signs manufacturi | F | 6.8 |
| Ohio County Healthcare | Hartford | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 6.8 |
| Somerwoods Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Somerset | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 6.8 |
| Baptist Health | Lagrange | hospital | C | 6.8 |
| NSU Corporation | Sonora | Exhaust systems and parts, a | D | 6.8 |
| 1094 - Lexington SE | Lexington | Discount Department Stores | F | 6.8 |
| Clay Ingels Company, LLC. | Lexington | Manufacturing building const | F | 6.8 |
| Continental Machinery Movers | Bowling Green | Machinery and equipment, lar | F | 6.8 |
| 200580-Berea Po | Berea | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 6.8 |
| Denny's Store #400 | Madisonville | Limited-Service Restaurants | F | 6.8 |
| 67230062--North American Stainless | Ghent | - | F | 6.8 |
| Baptist Health Corbin | Corbin | General medical and surgical | C | 6.8 |
| SEKRI - Cumberland | Cumberland | Cut and sew apparel contract | F | 6.8 |
| Rural Transit Enterprises Coordinated, Inc. (RTEC) | Mt Vernon | Shuttle services (except emp | D | 6.8 |
| Kycovi-Zp0-Nky Covington | Covington | OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH AND | D | 6.8 |
| Carbide Industries LLC | Calvert City | Acetylene manufacturing | F | 6.8 |
| Owensboro Kidron Goodwill | Owensboro | Thrift shops, used merchandi | D | 6.8 |
| Jabil | Florence | Computer servers manufacturi | F | 6.8 |
| Episcopal Church Home | Louisville | Continuing care retirement c | D | 6.8 |
| Denyo Manufacturing Corporation | Danville | Railway motors and control e | F | 6.8 |
| Smithfield Packaged Meats - Middlesboro | Middlesboro | Processed meats manufacturin | F | 6.8 |
| Mount Washington, Elmcroft of | Mount Washington | - | D | 6.8 |
| Kyout - Health Care | Louisville | General Warehousing and Stor | C | 6.8 |
| South Williamson Save-A-Lot | Goody | Grocery stores | D | 6.8 |
| Ft Knox | Ft Knox | Facility Support Services | F | 6.8 |
| Good Samaritan | Lexington | General medical and surgical | C | 6.8 |
| GARDENSIDE_1364436 | Lexington | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 6.8 |
| Go Hire Employee & Development, Inc | Hazard | Personnel management associa | F | 6.8 |
| Courtyard Lexington South/Hamburg Place | Lexington | Hotel management services | F | 6.8 |
| Davis & Plomin Mechanical, Inc. | Lexington | Plumbers | F | 6.8 |
| Danville Store | Danville | Used Merchandise Stores | D | 6.8 |
| 024-00402 | Winchester | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 6.8 |
| OWINGSVILLE_1376496 | Owingsville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 6.8 |
| LOUISVILLE_1441229 | Louisville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 6.8 |
| St Matthews | Louisville | automotive body paint and in | F | 6.8 |
| Mason Structure | Lexington | Masonry contractors | F | 6.7 |
| Home Lumber Company, Inc | Hazard | Home centers, building mater | D | 6.7 |
| Core-Mark Leitchfield | Leitchfield | - | F | 6.7 |
| 282 | Franklin | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 6.7 |
| 604 | Louisville | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 6.7 |
| Kentucky State Penitentiary | Eddyville | Correctional institutions | F | 6.7 |
| National Distribution Center | Lawrenceburg | Ceramic tiles, floor and wal | F | 6.7 |
| JH Outpatient Center | Louisville | Ambulatory surgical centers | D | 6.7 |
| 146-Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort & Spa | Crestview Hills | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 6.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Kentucky's safety record means for you
Kentucky averages a TCR of 5.0 - about 1.8× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.