Discount Department Stores · Kentucky

0958 - Bowling Green

Bowling Green, KY · ~159 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0958 - Bowling Green runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0958 - Bowling Green: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0958 - Bowling Green safety composite

0958 - Bowling Green scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

0958 - Bowling Green: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

0958 - Bowling Green's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #49/54
  • PHOTO 0301 - Rancho Cucamo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0301 - Rancho Cucamonga (0.0 TCR gap)

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0958 - Bowling Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0958 - Bowling Green averages 8.2 TCR (241% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0958 - Bowling Green TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=30 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0958 - Bowling Green falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #49 safest of 54 Discount Department Stores employers in Kentucky.

0958 - Bowling Green (159 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0958 - Bowling Green
0958 - Bowling Green (159 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0958 - Bowling Green has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 6.1 4.9 5 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 1 0
2022 30.0 23.1 6 20 0
2021 2.4 1.2 0 2 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · KY · Bowling Green

4,991 Discount Department 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 0301 - Rancho Cucamonga 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2161 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 159 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shopko Hometown #762 (Thermopolis, WY) 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pittsburg Tank & Tower Co. Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Excel Services, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creative Packaging Co. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruskin Company 159 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 0301 - Rancho Cucamonga 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Wadena 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EVR 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CBF Bakery Systems 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0901 - Kalamazoo West 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0820 - Northtown 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1178 - Loveland 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0362 - Hillsboro 159 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.