Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · Kentucky

AEP Industries Inc

Bowling Green, KY · ~137 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AEP Industries Inc runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

AEP Industries Inc: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AEP Industries Inc safety composite

AEP Industries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

AEP Industries Inc: 1.5 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2018

AEP Industries Inc's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO liqui-box
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: liqui-box (0.0 TCR gap)

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AEP Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AEP Industries Inc averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AEP Industries Inc TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where AEP Industries Inc falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
AEP Industries Inc (137 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate AEP Industries Inc
AEP Industries Inc (137 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

AEP Industries Inc has more employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2018 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2017 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · KY · Bowling Green

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing 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 liqui-box 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchor Packaging Inc. Paragould 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilex Poly - Jacksonville 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Global Goshen 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aristech Surfaces LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air Corporation 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novelis Berea 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ball Beverage Pkg 176 Bowling Green 137 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 Lav1 & 2 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #63 (Pocatello, ID) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #611 (St Peter, MN) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR digital printing systems 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Visiting Nurse Association of Southern Worcester County Inc. 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Louisiana Rehab Associates, LP 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE CORTEC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center 137 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.