Meat Processed From Carcasses · Kentucky

Bowling Green Plant

Bowling Green, KY · ~314 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowling Green Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meat Processed From Carcasses workplace, earning a grade A.

Bowling Green Plant: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowling Green Plant safety composite

Bowling Green Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Bowling Green Plant held a steady TCR band

Bowling Green Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.9 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Kraft Heinz Columbia…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kraft Heinz Columbia MO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowling Green Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowling Green Plant averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Bowling Green Plant TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bowling Green Plant falls in its industry

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers in Kentucky.

Bowling Green Plant (314 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowling Green Plant
Bowling Green Plant (314 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Bowling Green Plant has more employees than the Meat Processed From Carcasses median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 0.9 0.8 3 2 0
2023 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · KY · Bowling Green

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses 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 Kraft Heinz Columbia MO 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tech Center 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMITH PROVISION CO., INC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvin Choice Meats Inc 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 024-00774 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4118 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preload LLC 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles Deweese Construction, Inc. 313 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 Donald Smith Company, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PVE C3 - Product Validation Engineering 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lpr Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Potters Industries LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yarde Metals Southington CT 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cacee - Ceres Center 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCalla 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Grenada CCP 314 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.