Skids, metal, manufacturing · Kentucky

Bowling Green Metalforming

Bowling Green, KY · ~1,344 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowling Green Metalforming runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Skids, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bowling Green Metalforming: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Skids, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowling Green Metalforming safety composite

Bowling Green Metalforming scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.8

2020→2024

Bowling Green Metalforming injury rate improved

Bowling Green Metalforming's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.7 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.7 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Kewaunee Fabrications
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 236 inj
  • SIZE ~1,344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kewaunee Fabrications (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowling Green Metalforming in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowling Green Metalforming averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Skids, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bowling Green Metalforming TCR series: 2020=4.7 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bowling Green Metalforming falls in its industry

827 Skids, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Skids, metal, manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Bowling Green Metalforming (1,344 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowling Green Metalforming
Bowling Green Metalforming (1,344 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Bowling Green Metalforming has more employees than the Skids, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 2.9 1.2 42 0 0
2023 3.2 1.9 53 0 0
2022 3.1 1.6 46 1 0
2021 3.5 2.4 43 1 0
2020 4.7 2.8 52 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · KY · Bowling Green

827 Skids, metal, 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 Kewaunee Fabrications 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Assembly Specialty Products, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schmit Prototypes 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tigmaster Co. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital 1,346 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Lexington KY-Briar Hill Rd (3812) 1,339 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CVG9 1,355 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lourdes Hospital 1,358 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 BGKY Henkel Corporation 1,256 FTE
NAT-TCR 55339 Century Village East 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Aviation - PBI 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 084 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Friendship Health and Rehab 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Springfield 1,344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hays Medical Center 1,343 FTE
NAT-SIZE CC Administrative Campus 1,345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Electric Company 1,343 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.