Highway construction · Kentucky

Bowling Green Operations

Bowling Green, KY · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowling Green Operations runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Bowling Green Operations: 3.5 TCR = 124% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowling Green Operations safety composite

Bowling Green Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

2016→2017

Bowling Green Operations injury rate improved

Bowling Green Operations's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.4 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 124% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #23/51
  • PHOTO HAVRE SAND & GRAVEL,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HAVRE SAND & GRAVEL, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowling Green Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowling Green Operations averages 3.5 TCR (124% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bowling Green Operations TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Bowling Green Operations falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 51 Highway construction employers in Kentucky.

Bowling Green Operations (186 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowling Green Operations
Bowling Green Operations (186 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bowling Green Operations has more employees than the Highway construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2017 2.5 1.9 4 0 0
2016 4.4 1.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KY · Bowling Green

4,078 Highway construction 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 HAVRE SAND & GRAVEL, INC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peek Pavement Marking Columbus, GA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNIFE RIVER - SUNDIAL DIVISION 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manuel Luis Construction Company, Inc./M Luis Products, LLC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trimble County Station 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE K253-M001 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacture of car parts 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rane Light Metal Castings Inc. 186 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 Famco Enterprises, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuclear Energy : SCO 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jones Fiber Products, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeymoon Paper Products Corrugated Division 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Athlon Solutions- Corporate 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Hill AFB, UT - 1HAUT 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston Center (Sccha) 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alton (Ilalt) 186 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: 2017, 2016. 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.