Auto Dealer Service · Wisconsin

Bowditch Inc

Whitewater, WI · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowditch Inc runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Auto Dealer Service workplace, earning a grade D.

Bowditch Inc: 4.3 TCR = 128% of Auto Dealer Service BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowditch Inc safety composite

Bowditch Inc 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.82 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

−3.1

2023→2024

Bowditch Inc injury rate improved

Bowditch Inc's TCR fell 3.1 from 5.9 in 2023 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.9 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Whitewater, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #54/90
  • PHOTO Whitaker Buick Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whitaker Buick Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowditch Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowditch Inc averages 4.3 TCR (128% of the Auto Dealer Service BLS benchmark).

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

Bowditch Inc TCR series: 2023=5.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Bowditch Inc falls in its industry

2,847 Auto Dealer Service establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 90 Auto Dealer Service employers in Wisconsin.

Bowditch Inc (36 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowditch Inc
Bowditch Inc (36 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bowditch Inc has fewer employees than the Auto Dealer Service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2023 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · WI · Whitewater

2,847 Auto Dealer Service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 33 employers in Whitewater, WI · 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 Whitaker Buick Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freysinger Hyundai 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lithia of Santa Rosa, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGH Auto, LLC. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rolling Hills Diary Farm, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & T Quality Cutting LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barron Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lavelle Industries Inc. Whitewater 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitewater 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1274 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1274 230 FTE
NAT-TCR El Monte 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 033 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6336 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE RRSC Providence 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drexel Technologies, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Recycling New York Corp 36 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.