Food Services · Kentucky

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ.

Bowling Green, KY · ~330 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. runs at 778% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ.: 23.4 TCR = 778% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. safety composite

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 30.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ.: 3.4 → 43.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 43.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2024

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ.'s TCR rose 39.9 from 3.4 in 2023 to 43.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 23.4 · 778% of ind

  • DART 30.9 DART
  • RANK #91/92
  • PHOTO 500275500 UNIV. OF C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~330 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500275500 UNIV. OF CENTRAL ARK (0.0 TCR gap)

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500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. averages 23.4 TCR (778% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=43.3 · BLS 3.0

Where 500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 92 Food Services employers in Kentucky.

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. (330 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 500471500 Western Kentucky Univ.
500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. (330 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500471500 Western Kentucky Univ. has more employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 43.3 30.9 7 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · KY · Bowling Green

6,952 Food Services 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 500275500 UNIV. OF CENTRAL ARK 23.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500101500 MONMOUTH COLLEGE 23.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Services Group - St. Tammany 23.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500023000 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 23.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1053 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 653 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE HJI Supply Chain Solutions 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newgistics CVG 330 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 6957-PVD 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit BHC WV, LLC DBA Highland Hospital 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NUQFREMONTCA 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0152 Clackamas 23.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mcgee Air Services Sfo 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wholesale Produce Supply 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Concrete Construction Inc 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC 11 - Blue Hills 330 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. 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.