Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Kentucky

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant

Bowling Green, KY · ~122 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant safety composite

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant: 0.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK P57
  • PHOTO Ball Metalpack - War…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ball Metalpack - Warner - Canton, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant falls in its industry

217 Beer cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant (122 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant
Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant (122 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Crown Cork & Seal - Bowling Green Plant has more employees than the Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.5 2.9 6 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 2 1 0
2022 4.4 2.2 4 2 0
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · KY · Bowling Green

217 Beer cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing 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 Ball Metalpack - Warner - Canton, OH 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Beverage Packaging, LLC - LaCrosse Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 171 Fort Atkinson 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Worland Plant 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Techforce 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueCotton 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hussey Copper LTD. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice Louisville - 0560 122 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 Sideburn Support Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fencecorp, Inc (All Locations) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2308 Martins Supermarket 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Holly Hill #682 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-3722 REDLANDS AVE 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stacy and Witbeck/Kuney, A Joint Venture - Redmond Link Extension 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elyria Family Hlth Surgery Ctr 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Markley Operator LLC 122 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.