Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Kentucky

026-00509

Bowling Green, KY · ~161 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

026-00509 runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

026-00509: 5.2 TCR = 154% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

026-00509 safety composite

026-00509 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2016→2024

026-00509 injury rate improved

026-00509's TCR fell 4.7 from 5.6 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #257/364
  • PHOTO 10159 Hingham
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10159 Hingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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026-00509 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 026-00509 averages 5.2 TCR (154% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

026-00509 TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=9 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 026-00509 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #257 safest of 364 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Kentucky.

026-00509 (161 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 026-00509
026-00509 (161 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

026-00509 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.9 0.9 3 0 0
2022 9.0 9.0 4 6 0
2021 6.9 4.3 6 2 0
2020 9.4 5.5 12 0 0
2019 4.2 2.5 5 0 0
2018 3.4 2.5 4 0 0
2017 4.8 3.2 6 0 0
2016 5.6 4.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · KY · Bowling Green

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 331 employers in Bowling Green, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 10159 Hingham 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 531-00543 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 704-00351 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-03171 FAC-03171-LOMPOC-CA 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Menzner Hardwoods Co. Kentucky 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&H Sheet Metal Fabricators Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Faurecia Exhaust Systems 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whip Mix Corporation - Louisville KY 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Medical Center at Bowling Green 1,872 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Bowling Green Metalforming 1,441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bowling Green Metalforming 1,344 FTE
NAT-TCR Hayesville House 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Bakery of Suwanee 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Basin Western, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR L. G. Pike Construction CO Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE System Logistics Corporation 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE O.W. Lee Co. Inc 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE ROTHCO 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCS Grading 161 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.