Trading posts, general merchandise · Arizona

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers

Benson, AZ · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trading posts, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade C.

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers: 3.0 TCR = 87% of Trading posts, general merchandise BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers safety composite

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.8

2018→2024

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers injury rate improved

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers's TCR fell 11.8 from 11.8 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Benson, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/40
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #225 …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #225 KINGSPORT, TN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers averages 3.0 TCR (87% of the Trading posts, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers TCR series: 2018=11.8 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers falls in its industry

2,120 Trading posts, general merchan establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 40 Trading posts, general merchan employers in Arizona.

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers
Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Bowlin's The Thing Travel Centers has more employees than the Trading posts, general merchandise median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.8 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · AZ · Benson

2,120 Trading posts, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 14 employers in Benson, AZ · 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 Big Lots Store #225 KINGSPORT, TN 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1192 ARLINGTON, TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1715 ROANOKE, VA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 485 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TONOPAH BARNS 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO SOUTH COOLING 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shop and Warehouse 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Harquahala Generating Company 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3807 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3807 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Benson Hospital Corporation 175 FTE
NAT-TCR Lloyd Roofing 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Stamping Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ReSteel Supply Co., Inc. New England 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sampson Construction - Lincoln, NE 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bowlin's Flying C Ranch 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 4 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luke Landscape Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMR Co., Inc. 27 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, 2021, 2018. 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.