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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.

Kentucky grade distribution 7,802 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Kentucky'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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Save A Lot #138 Monticello Grocery stores D 5.8
4186-01117 Lexington Dollar Stores D 5.8
Rotek Inc Florence Bearings, ball and roller, m D 5.8
Coldspring Transitional Care Center Cold Spring Skilled nursing facilities C 5.7
City of Madisonville - Wastewater Collection Madisonville Sewage collection and dispos F 5.7
024-00710 Carrollton Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Lexington (KY) 869 Lexington Ready-mix concrete manufactu D 5.7
London, Ky #03162 London Retail Hardware Stores D 5.7
Hayashi Telempu North America KY Plant Frankfort Motor vehicle interior syste C 5.7
double kwik Belfry Belfry Gasoline stations with conve D 5.7
Rosedale Green Covington Nursing homes D 5.7
Hardin County Operations Elizabethtown Garbage collection services F 5.7
Lee Building Products Bardstown Bardstown Precast concrete block and b D 5.7
7062 - Florence Florence - D 5.7
Dunaway Timber - Fordsville Fordsville Sawmills D 5.7
CGS Machine and Tool Inc. Bowling Green Machine shops D 5.7
513 Preston Highway Louisville Department Store D 5.7
KY026JFM Louisville 713950 Bowling centers D 5.7
ATI Forged Products - Lebanon Lebanon Hot forgings made from purch D 5.7
421 Bowling Green Couriers and express deliver C 5.7
Casey's IGA Hindman Commissaries, primarily groc D 5.7
Tennant Company Louisville Louisville Carpet sweepers, mechanical, D 5.7
City Utilities Commission Corbin Distribution of electric pow F 5.7
Mt. Sterling Store Mt. Sterling Used Merchandise Stores D 5.7
KYTC District 12 Pikeville Licensing of transportation D 5.7
Fister Distribution, Inc. Lexington Trucking, general freight, l D 5.7
double kwik Prestonsburg 2057 Prestonsburg Convenience food with gasoli D 5.7
1139 Morehead Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
491 Paducah Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
Wastequip Mt Sterling Mt. Sterling Garbage cans, light gauge me D 5.7
Wm 3363 Owensboro Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
205128-Mayfield Po Mayfield Mail and Parcel Delivery D 5.7
299 Bowling Green Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
Power Services : Erlanger, KY, USA Erlanger - D 5.7
CHUHATSU Glasgow Automotive parts, new, merch F 5.7
Lee Building Products (Bowling Green) Bowling Green Blocks, concrete and cinder, D 5.7
Vuteq USA Georgetown Bumpers and bumperettes asse C 5.7
2807-1796 Glasgow Homecenter D 5.7
LP Lexington Tanbark Road, LLC Lexington Skilled nursing facilities C 5.7
4186-01940 Paducah Dollar Stores D 5.7
Process Solutions & Services DBA Rapid Industries Louisville Buckets, elevator or conveyo D 5.7
Bristol Group Lexington Concrete product (e.g., stru F 5.7
Four Stone Custom Mill & Casework LLC Louisville Cabinets (i.e., housings), w D 5.7
014-00381 Covington Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
DANVILLE_1360291 Danville Mail and Parcel Delivery D 5.7
Food Giant #522 Marion Food (i.e., groceries) store D 5.7
2576-247 Radcliff Psychiatric and Substance Ab D 5.7
1197 - Florence Ky Whse Florence Warehouse clubs (i.e., food D 5.7
Tmx2006 - Louisville Louisville - D 5.7
Henkel Corporation- Louisville Louisville General warehousing and stor C 5.7
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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.

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.