Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Big River Rubber & Gasket

Owensboro, KY · ~47 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big River Rubber & Gasket runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Big River Rubber & Gasket: 3.1 TCR = 141% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big River Rubber & Gasket safety composite

Big River Rubber & Gasket scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−0.8

2016→2023

Big River Rubber & Gasket injury rate improved

Big River Rubber & Gasket's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.2 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO IN180
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IN180 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big River Rubber & Gasket in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big River Rubber & Gasket averages 3.1 TCR (141% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Big River Rubber & Gasket TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Big River Rubber & Gasket falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Kentucky.

Big River Rubber & Gasket (47 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Big River Rubber & Gasket
Big River Rubber & Gasket (47 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Big River Rubber & Gasket has more employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2021 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 1.9 2 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.2 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · KY · Owensboro

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 IN180 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACOS Enterprises dba Swagelok Georgia 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gillette 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hampton Rubber Company 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Russellville 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cane Run 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glasgow Electric Plant Board 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miranda Construction, LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR WakeMed Garner Healthplex 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Craftsmen Utility Trailer-Sikeston 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cox Trucking Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Energy Services Appleton WI 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heritage of Red Cloud 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Electric Inc. North Carolina 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockaway Beach Blvd Construction Co 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE IRSG Office 47 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: 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.