Electric contracting · Kentucky

Dotson Electric Company, Inc.

Bowling Green, KY · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric contracting workplace, earning a grade D.

Dotson Electric Company, Inc.: 4.8 TCR = 171% of Electric contracting BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. safety composite

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.4

2016→2019

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Dotson Electric Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 14.4 from 14.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #45/51
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dotson Electric Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dotson Electric Company, Inc. averages 4.8 TCR (171% of the Electric contracting BLS benchmark).

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

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.4 · 2017=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Dotson Electric Company, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electric contracting establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 51 Electric contracting employers in Kentucky.

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dotson Electric Company, Inc.
Dotson Electric Company, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Dotson Electric Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Electric contracting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 14.4 7.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · KY · Bowling Green

4,550 Electric contracting 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 Main Office 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Solar LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. Conway Electric, Inc. dba Favulli Electric 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Billitier Electric Inc 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LGE-KU - Danville Substation 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Generating Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midway Service Center 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.A. Bennett, Inc. 23 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 Webcrafters, Inc. - Westport 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Exemplis-Buena Park 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Leesburg 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrick, Inc. DT&H 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Airport 4459 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Copper and Brass Sales - Rochester 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clegg's Pest Control - Raleigh 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clegg's Pest Control - Charlotte 23 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.