Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores · Kentucky

026-00535

Bowling Green, KY · ~187 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

026-00535 runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

026-00535: 4.1 TCR = 122% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

026-00535 safety composite

026-00535 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−0.5

2016→2024

026-00535 injury rate improved

026-00535's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.5 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 122% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #167/364
  • PHOTO 1401 ADA MARKET
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1401 ADA MARKET (0.0 TCR gap)

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026-00535 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 026-00535 averages 4.1 TCR (122% 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

026-00535 TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.4

Where 026-00535 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #167 safest of 364 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Kentucky.

026-00535 (187 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 026-00535
026-00535 (187 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

026-00535 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Except Co median and a lower 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 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 3 1 0
2022 4.6 4.6 0 6 0
2021 6.8 5.5 4 6 0
2020 5.3 4.7 5 4 0
2019 3.8 3.1 6 0 0
2018 3.5 1.7 6 0 0
2017 3.4 1.4 5 0 0
2016 3.5 2.8 5 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 1401 ADA MARKET 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0425 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0698 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0837 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nationwide Uniform Corporation 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Foodservice, Inc. 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE 024-00743 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE 402090000 187 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 Dakota Valley Learning Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin House 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Quirch Foods - Atlanta 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Medbio, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE William Grant & Sons Inc. NYC Office 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADDIUM, Inc 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE T & S Equipment 187 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.