Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Ohio

Bowling Transportation, Inc.

Name: Bowling Transportation, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Fostoria, OH · ~137 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bowling Transportation, Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Bowling Transportation, Inc.: 3.2 TCR = 72% of Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowling Transportation, Inc. safety composite

Bowling Transportation, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bowling Transportation, Inc.: 2.8 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2020

Bowling Transportation, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 2.8 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Fostoria, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 72% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #91/186
PHOTO CHS LTL
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHS LTL (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.2
CHS LTL

3.2
El Paso Headqu

3.2
Tweedy Transpo

3.2
McCorkle Truck

3.2

What this shows Bowling Transportation, Inc. averages 3.2 TCR (72% of the Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

Bowling Transportation, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Bowling Transportation, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 186 Motor freight carrier, general employers in Ohio.

Bowling Transportation, Inc. (137 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bowling Transportation, Inc. has more employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, long-dis 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
2020	3.6	1.6	7	0	0
2019	2.8	1.1	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Fostoria

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 47 employers in Fostoria, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	CHS LTL	CHARLESTON, SC	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	El Paso Headquarters	EL PASO, TX	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tweedy Transport, Inc.	POCAHONTAS, AR	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	McCorkle Truck Line, Inc.	OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dynegy Miami Fort LLC	NORTH BEND	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3040 McKinley Ave	COLUMBUS	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wells Brothers, Inc.	ANNA	137 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MAYERS ELECTRIC CO., INC.	CINCINNATI	137 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Roppe Corporation	Fostoria	286 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Good Shepherd Home	Fostoria	230 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fostoria Community Hospital	Fostoria	190 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NOX US	Fostoria	169 FTE
NAT-TCR	Central States Enterprises New haven In.	New Haven, IN	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trinity Rail Maintenance Services Inc.	Hamlet, NC	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tramec Sloan Holland	Holland, MI	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	IEW Construction Group	Hamilton, NJ	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Spiegelhoff's Markets LLC	Burlington, WI	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County	San Diego, CA	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ms Care Center of Alcorn County	Corinth, MS	137 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fellowship Square Historic Mesa	Mesa, AZ	137 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.