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 81 of 156| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BME INC Burlington | Burlington | Mechanical contractors | C | 3.2 |
| Venosa | Louisville | Terrazzo products, precast ( | C | 3.2 |
| Mid-Park Highway | Leitchfield | Highway bridge sections, pre | C | 3.2 |
| Biorigin | Louisville | Fermentation equipment, chem | C | 3.2 |
| Design Fabricators and Integrators, LLC | Louisville | Belt conveyor systems manufa | C | 3.2 |
| 014-00410 | Cold Spring | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.2 |
| KY 2919 Ring Road | Elizabethtown | - | F | 3.2 |
| 152-Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa | Crestview Hills | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.2 |
| KYTC District 6 | Covington | Licensing of transportation | C | 3.2 |
| Louisville Paving and Construction | Louisville | Excavating, earthmoving, or | C | 3.2 |
| EcoATM Gazelle | Louisville | Antennas merchant wholesaler | D | 3.2 |
| 641 - Nicholasville | Nicholasville | - | C | 3.2 |
| Wm 1170 | Louisville | - | C | 3.2 |
| Saint Joseph Martin | Martin | Healthcare Inpatient/Outpati | A | 3.2 |
| D.W. Wilburn, Inc. | Lexington | Commercial building construc | C | 3.2 |
| HMC Service Company | Louisville | Plumbing and heating contrac | C | 3.2 |
| BNL | Means | Plate work (e.g., bending, c | C | 3.2 |
| 2317 Owensboro | Owensboro | Home Centers | C | 3.2 |
| Forge Lumber - Erlanger Millwork (HQ) | Erlanger | Other Building Material Deal | C | 3.2 |
| double kwik Jackson | Jackson | Convenience food with gasoli | C | 3.2 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - HLO1 | Louisville | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 3.2 |
| 58LX | Lexington | Automobile rental | F | 3.2 |
| City of Madisonville - Parks | Madisonville | Parks, nature | C | 3.2 |
| Coldiron Office- Magnum Hunter Production | Coldiron | Natural gas production | D | 3.2 |
| All Facilities | Mckee | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.2 |
| Steel Ventures, Inc. | Greenup | Steel manufacturing | C | 3.2 |
| CS - Holley Inc. | Bowling Green | Valves, engine, intake and e | B | 3.2 |
| AS - Automotive Steering | Florence | Automotive, truck and bus st | B | 3.2 |
| Lousiville | Louisville | Chemicals (except agricultur | D | 3.2 |
| 6312-126 | Louisville | New & Used Car Dealer | C | 3.2 |
| F S Vanhoose & CO | Paintsville | Building materials supply de | C | 3.2 |
| The Fresh Market 097 | Louisville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.2 |
| Hikes Point Store | Louisville | Used Merchandise Stores | C | 3.2 |
| AES Asset Acquisition Corp dba Clean Earth of Calvert City | Calvert City | Hazardous waste treatment fa | D | 3.2 |
| 1 | Louisville | Addition, alteration and ren | C | 3.2 |
| Infiltrator Water Technologies | Winchester | Septic tanks, plastics or fi | C | 3.2 |
| DSI Tunneling LLC | Louisville | Structural steel, fabricated | C | 3.2 |
| Blue Grass Manufacturing Co. of Lexington, Inc | Lexington | Machine shops | C | 3.2 |
| 0607 Lowe S of S. Lexington Ky. | Lexington | Homecenter | C | 3.2 |
| Crossroads IGA #774 | Bowling Green | Grocery stores | C | 3.2 |
| RCV | Hanson | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.2 |
| Donan Engineering | Louisville | Engineering services | F | 3.2 |
| Algood Food Company | Louisville | Peanut butter manufacturing | B | 3.1 |
| Jarden Plastic Solutions | Erlanger | Dinnerware, plastics (except | C | 3.1 |
| Meggitt Engine Systems | Erlanger | Carbon specialties for aeros | C | 3.1 |
| Plumbers Supply Co - Bowling Green | Bowling Green | Plumbing supply stores | C | 3.1 |
| KY-London-Wal Mart | London | - | B | 3.1 |
| 410180000 | Erlanger | Transportation Air Cargo | A | 3.1 |
| Clarksville Branch | Owensboro | Building cleaning services, | B | 3.1 |
| LBM Construction Company, Inc. | Louisville | Commercial building construc | C | 3.1 |
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).
Look up a Kentucky employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.