Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Kentucky

Bowling Green Ky

Bowling Green, KY · ~41 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Bowling Green Ky runs at 512% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
44
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Bowling Green Ky's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Bowling Green Ky's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

0510152025 201620172018201920202021202220232024 14.82.2 Industry benchmarkBowling Green Ky TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 424490.

Where Bowling Green Ky falls in its industry

1,347 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 25 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Kentucky.

Bowling Green Ky has an average TCR of 11.3, which is 512% of the industry average (2.2) for Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers. This is significantly worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Bowling Green Ky

Between 2016 and 2024, Bowling Green Ky's Total Case Rate worsened from 13.6 to 14.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 9% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 1.8, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 23.8, a spread of 22.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Bowling Green Ky recorded 44 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Bowling Green Ky's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424490 - Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

8 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 108,413 hours worked = 14.76 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Bowling Green Ky (this establishment) 11.26 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Other Grocery Related Products Merchant Wholesaler industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 424490
Kentucky state avg (all industries) 4.39 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Bowling Green Ky to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 14.8 14.8 8 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2021 14.6 10.4 7 0 0
2020 16.5 11.8 7 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2018 10.0 10.0 4 0 0
2017 23.8 18.5 9 0 0
2016 13.6 13.6 5 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Bowling Green Ky's reported OSHA injury record versus its Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 512% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers benchmark, Bowling Green Ky reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bowling Green Ky's safety grade?
Bowling Green Ky has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 11.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers.
How many injuries has Bowling Green Ky reported?
Bowling Green Ky has reported 44 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.