Soft drinks manufacturing · Kentucky

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution

Owensboro, KY · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution: 9.1 TCR = 277% of Soft drinks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution safety composite

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution: 7.1 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution's TCR rose 1.6 from 7.1 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 277% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Tempe VAF
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tempe VAF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution averages 9.1 TCR (277% of the Soft drinks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution falls in its industry

516 Soft drinks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Soft drinks manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution (35 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution (35 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution has fewer employees than the Soft drinks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2017 11.6 8.7 4 0 0
2016 7.1 7.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · KY · Owensboro

516 Soft drinks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 Tempe VAF 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lieb Foods LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Bellevue 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Draper VAF 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Castleton Lyons, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hermitage Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coldiron Office- Magnum Hunter Production 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Behavioral Heath Works, Gardena, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TNC Operations, LLC D/B/A Tulsa Nursing Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Spanish Fork # 9019 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 146 Matteson, Il 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Conyers Service Center 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rome Service Center 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toyota Boshoku Mississippi-Alabama 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Hill Grants Supermarket 35 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.