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Kentucky workplace safety

Name: Kentucky Employer Workplace Safety Data
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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).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

7,805
Employers: 5.0
Avg TCR (rated): 170,117
Injuries (all): 164
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

5.0 avg TCR

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.

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

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 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 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

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Employer	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
4186-01117	Lexington	Dollar Stores	D	5.8
Wm 3294	Louisville	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	D	5.8
Lee County Head Start	Beattyville	Academies, elementary or sec	F	5.8
City of Madisonville - Wastewater Collection	Madisonville	Sewage collection and dispos	F	5.7
Lexington (KY) 869	Lexington	Ready-mix concrete manufactu	D	5.7
Hayashi Telempu North America KY Plant	Frankfort	Motor vehicle interior syste	C	5.7
London, Ky #03162	London	Retail Hardware Stores	D	5.7
024-00710	Carrollton	Supermarkets and Other Groce	D	5.7
Coldspring Transitional Care Center	Cold Spring	Skilled nursing facilities	C	5.7
Dunaway Timber - Fordsville	Fordsville	Sawmills	D	5.7
Lee Building Products Bardstown	Bardstown	Precast concrete block and b	D	5.7
double kwik Belfry	Belfry	Gasoline stations with conve	D	5.7
7062 - Florence	Florence	-	D	5.7
Hardin County Operations	Elizabethtown	Garbage collection services	F	5.7
Rosedale Green	Covington	Nursing homes	D	5.7
ATI Forged Products - Lebanon	Lebanon	Hot forgings made from purch	D	5.7
CGS Machine and Tool Inc.	Bowling Green	Machine shops	D	5.7
513 Preston Highway	Louisville	Department Store	D	5.7
421	Bowling Green	Couriers and express deliver	C	5.7
KY026JFM	Louisville	713950 Bowling centers	D	5.7
Tennant Company Louisville	Louisville	Carpet sweepers, mechanical,	D	5.7
Casey's IGA	Hindman	Commissaries, primarily groc	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
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
Fister Distribution, Inc.	Lexington	Trucking, general freight, l	D	5.7
KYTC District 12	Pikeville	Licensing of transportation	D	5.7
Wastequip Mt Sterling	Mt. Sterling	Garbage cans, light gauge me	D	5.7
Power Services : Erlanger, KY, USA	Erlanger	-	D	5.7
Wm 3363	Owensboro	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	D	5.7
299	Bowling Green	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	D	5.7
205128-Mayfield Po	Mayfield	Mail and Parcel Delivery	D	5.7
Bristol Group	Lexington	Concrete product (e.g., stru	F	5.7
Lee Building Products (Bowling Green)	Bowling Green	Blocks, concrete and cinder,	D	5.7
Process Solutions & Services DBA Rapid Industries	Louisville	Buckets, elevator or conveyo	D	5.7
Vuteq USA	Georgetown	Bumpers and bumperettes asse	C	5.7
CHUHATSU	Glasgow	Automotive parts, new, merch	F	5.7
2807-1796	Glasgow	Homecenter	D	5.7
4186-01940	Paducah	Dollar Stores	D	5.7
LP Lexington Tanbark Road, LLC	Lexington	Skilled nursing facilities	C	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
Food Giant #522	Marion	Food (i.e., groceries) store	D	5.7
1197 - Florence Ky Whse	Florence	Warehouse clubs (i.e., food	D	5.7
DANVILLE_1360291	Danville	Mail and Parcel Delivery	D	5.7
Henkel Corporation- Louisville	Louisville	General warehousing and stor	C	5.7
Tmx2006 - Louisville	Louisville	-	D	5.7
2288-0370	Bowling Green	Structural Pest Control	D	5.7

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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).

Kansas TCR 5.0 Indiana TCR 5.0 Oklahoma TCR 4.9 Missouri TCR 5.1

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,805 here).

South Carolina 7,610 emp. Oregon 8,031 emp. Alabama 7,418 emp. Maryland 7,213 emp.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore

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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.