Retail · Kentucky

272 - Bowling Green

Bowling Green, KY · ~182 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

272 - Bowling Green runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail workplace, earning a grade B.

272 - Bowling Green: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Retail BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

272 - Bowling Green safety composite

272 - Bowling Green scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.0

2021→2024

272 - Bowling Green injury rate improved

272 - Bowling Green's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.2 in 2021 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #3/22
  • PHOTO 032 - Canton
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 032 - Canton (0.0 TCR gap)

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272 - Bowling Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 272 - Bowling Green averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Retail BLS benchmark).

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

272 - Bowling Green TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 272 - Bowling Green falls in its industry

1,491 Retail establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 22 Retail employers in Kentucky.

272 - Bowling Green (182 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 272 - Bowling Green
272 - Bowling Green (182 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

272 - Bowling Green has fewer employees than the Retail median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 3.2 1.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · KY · Bowling Green

1,491 Retail 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 032 - Canton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 068 - Westland 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 189 - Defiance 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 242 - Lenox Twp MI 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Art's Electric, Inc. dba AE Electrical Solutions 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Company 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Plant 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. 182 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 242 - Lenox Twp MI 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 189 - Defiance 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 068 - Westland 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 032 - Canton 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smith & Nephew Columbia MD 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rothman Orthopaedic Speciality Hospital LLC 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot of Illinois, Inc. - Corporate 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamsport Retirement Village 182 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.