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 97 of 156| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas Tree Shops Florence 7062 | Florence | - | B | 2.4 |
| 024-00332 | Louisville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.4 |
| Save A Lot #80 | Fall Rock | Grocery stores | B | 2.4 |
| Harland Clarke Holdings - Florence | Florence | Direct mail advertising serv | F | 2.4 |
| BioTek America,LLC - Paducah | Paducah | Plasmapheresis center | B | 2.4 |
| Sodexo at Chi Our Lady of Peace | Louisville | Food Service Contractors | B | 2.4 |
| Ky Chfs Dcbs Pr4417 | Campbellsville | State Government | B | 2.4 |
| Location 3 | Guthrie | Drywall and Insulation Contr | C | 2.3 |
| 3A Composites USA, Inc. | Benton | Sheet, laminated plastics (e | B | 2.3 |
| Mubea Connecting Products | Florence | Automobile suspension spring | B | 2.3 |
| SA Recycling, Bowling Green-Graham | Bowling Green | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 2.3 |
| Wm 106 | Fulton | - | B | 2.3 |
| 552 | Whitesburg | All Other General Merchandis | B | 2.3 |
| American Printing House for the Blind | Louisville | School book publishers and p | F | 2.3 |
| Meridian Brick-Stanton-Meridian | Stanton | Bricks (i.e., common, face, | B | 2.3 |
| Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (USA), Inc | Franklin | Manufacturer of heavy vehicl | A | 2.3 |
| Hutson Inc - Paducah | Paducah | Tractors, industrial, mercha | C | 2.3 |
| Alexandria, Ky #03150 | Alexandria | Retail Hardware Stores | B | 2.3 |
| Unit # 0170 | Murray | Retail | B | 2.3 |
| 4186-01944 | Louisville | Dollar Stores | B | 2.3 |
| Wm 2968 | Carrollton | - | B | 2.3 |
| Meijer, INC | Owensboro | Supermarkets | B | 2.3 |
| KDLA State Library | Frankfort | Government base facilities o | C | 2.3 |
| Leonard Lawson Cancer Center | Pikeville | Oncologists' offices (e.g., | B | 2.3 |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Public Advocacy, Bowling Green Trial Office | Bowling Green | Public defenders' offices | B | 2.3 |
| Hazard Svc Ctr | Hazard | - | D | 2.3 |
| Smithfield Packaging | Grayson | Hams, preserved (except poul | B | 2.3 |
| Pratt Industries (Target Container) Display Division | Hebron | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 2.3 |
| Falmouth Hammer Strength | Falmouth | Athletic goods (except ammun | B | 2.3 |
| Shelbyville | Shelbyville | Farm machinery and equipment | C | 2.3 |
| 43171g - Elizabethtown Bin | Elizabethtown | Confectionery Merchant Whole | C | 2.3 |
| Christmas Tree Shops Florence | Florence | retailing gifts novelty mer | B | 2.3 |
| Kywbs - Dixie Warehouse 8 | Louisville | Other Support Activities for | B | 2.3 |
| iHerb, Inc./Staffmark - Hebron, KY | Hebron | Warehouse/Distribution | A | 2.3 |
| Sms 1506 | Louisville | Building cleaning services, | B | 2.3 |
| O-Louisvile Primary Data Ctr | Louisville | Amusement & Recreation Servi | B | 2.3 |
| City of Madisonville - Electric Distribution | Madisonville | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.3 |
| R&R Hvac | Brownsville | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | C | 2.3 |
| Best Mechanical | Louisville | Plumbing and heating contrac | C | 2.3 |
| FP- Hopkinsville | Hopkinsville | Foam plastics products (exce | B | 2.3 |
| 4413 | Lexington | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| STR0664 | Elizabethtown | Department stores except dis | B | 2.3 |
| Oxmoor Center 562 | Louisville | Retail | B | 2.3 |
| Scott Waste AdamsonSt | Bowling Green | Garbage collection services | C | 2.3 |
| Marion | Marion | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.3 |
| CCFC Road Department | Alexandria | Road construction | C | 2.3 |
| International Paper Lexington | Lexington | Corrugated and solid fiber b | B | 2.3 |
| Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC Murray Division | Murray | Organo-inorganic compound ma | B | 2.3 |
| Stantek | Stanton | Magnetron tubes manufacturin | B | 2.3 |
| Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant | Glasgow | Brake pads and shoes, automo | A | 2.3 |
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.