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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
Verst Greendale Compari	Lexington	Addition, alteration and ren	C	2.7
Amazon.com Services LLC - LEX5	Erlanger	Commercial Screen Printing	C	2.7
Wpma 2040 (Louisville, Ky - F)	Louisville	Machine Shops	C	2.7
Hillyard Co. - Kentucky	Lexington	Chemicals (except agricultur	D	2.7
1569	Maysville	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	B	2.7
PSSI - 0222 Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - Grayson	Grayson	Janitorial Services	B	2.7
6443-483170	Lexington	Other Residential Care Facil	B	2.7
Sodexo at Lousiville Riverbats	Louisville	Food Service Contractors	C	2.7
18300A	Mount Washington	Cable laying (e.g., cable te	C	2.7
CLINTON	Clinton	Special purpose industrial m	D	2.7
LP	Louisville	-	D	2.7
0464 Lowe S of Winchester Ky.	Winchester	Homecenter	B	2.7
736	Russellville	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	B	2.7
Neat Companies	Dunville	Trucking, general freight, l	B	2.7
MURRAY_1374280	Murray	Mail and Parcel Delivery	B	2.7
BENTON_1354689	Benton	Mail and Parcel Delivery	B	2.7
Corporate Services - Belfry	Belfry	General warehousing and stor	A	2.7
North American Parts Center Kentucky	Hebron	General Warehousing and Stor	A	2.7
38N0	Hebron	Car Rental Agencies	D	2.7
Sodexo at Clark Regional Medical Center	Winchester	Facilities Support Services	C	2.7
Laurel Creek Health Care	Manchester	Skilled nursing facilities	A	2.7
Hampton by Hilton Louisville Airport	Louisville	Hotels (except casino hotels	C	2.7
Sodexo at Centre College	Danville	Food Service Contractors	C	2.7
Kerry - Louisville, KY.	Louisville	Flavor extracts (except coff	B	2.7
Bunzl Retail Services, LLC (Murray)	Murray	Wholesale Distribution	D	2.7
014-00901	Erlanger	Supermarkets and Other Groce	B	2.7
Ross store 2013	Lexington	Retail Store	B	2.7
Big Lots Store #1511 LEXINGTON, KY	Lexington	Retail Other	B	2.7
Pikeville (Kypik)	Pikeville	Courier Services Except by A	A	2.7
PSSI - 0678 CTI Foods - Owingsville	Owingsville	Janitorial Services	B	2.7
Vna Health at Home Elizabethtown	Elizabethtown	Home health agencies	B	2.7
98-Albany Marriott	Crestview Hills	Hotels (except casino hotels	C	2.7
RC Durr Family YMCA Branch	Burlington	Membership associations, civ	D	2.7
103-Drees-Corp Ft Mitchell	Ft Mitchell	HOMEBUILDING	B	2.7
BGT Greenville, Kentucky	Greenville	Sawmill equipment manufactur	C	2.7
Hyster-Yale Group Berea	Berea	Forklifts manufacturing	C	2.7
Piston Automotive	Louisville	Radiators and cores manufact	A	2.7
Safran Landing Systems Kentucky LLC	Walton	Aircraft assemblies, subasse	C	2.7
KIT Blue Grass DC	Louisville	Industrial Supplies Merchant	D	2.7
04-Louisville	Louisville	Fine paper, bulk, merchant w	D	2.7
251 Oxmoor	Louisville	Department Store	B	2.7
MS Companies Georgetown Kentucky	Georgetown	Temporary staffing services	C	2.7
Clean Earth of Calvert City	Calvert City	Hazardous waste treatment fa	C	2.7
16110001-161101 Saint Joseph - London	London	General Medical and Surgical	A	2.7
Sodexo at Berea College-Alumni Bldg	Berea	Food Service Contractors	C	2.7
City of Paducah - Parks and Recreation	Paducah	General services departments	C	2.7
Office of Inspector General - Lexington	Frankfort	General services departments	C	2.7
Franklin Hatchery	Franklin	Poultry Hatcheries	B	2.7
Ridley Block Operations - Flemingsburg	Flemingsburg	Animal feed mills (except do	B	2.7
Jay Gee Manufacturing Plant 1	Butler	Sheet metal work (except sta	C	2.7

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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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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.