Retail Hardware Stores · Kentucky

Bowling Green, Ky #00303

Bowling Green, KY · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Bowling Green, Ky #00303: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 safety composite

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Bowling Green, Ky #00303: 0.0 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2023

Bowling Green, Ky #00303's TCR rose 15.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 15.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Atwoods 51
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atwoods 51 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowling Green, Ky #00303 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowling Green, Ky #00303 averages 4.7 TCR (138% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8 · 2023=15.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Bowling Green, Ky #00303 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Kentucky.

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 (20 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowling Green, Ky #00303
Bowling Green, Ky #00303 (20 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Bowling Green, Ky #00303 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 15.4 7.7 2 0 0
2022 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · KY · Bowling Green

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores 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 Atwoods 51 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONROE, TX #00742 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHITE'S ACE BUILDING CENTER, SHAWNEE 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTH SPRINGFIELD, MO #00860 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daysville 20 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 The McGregor Foundation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4043 YUMA, AZ 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 102 - Cocoa 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 607 - Southaven 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gretna, La #00272 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brownsville, Tx #00257 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augusta, Ga #00209 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria, La #00197 20 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. 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.