Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock · Kentucky

K-C Owensboro

Owensboro, KY · ~339 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K-C Owensboro runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock workplace, earning a grade A.

K-C Owensboro: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K-C Owensboro safety composite

K-C Owensboro scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−0.7

2016→2017

K-C Owensboro injury rate improved

K-C Owensboro's TCR fell 0.7 from 0.9 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.9 · 2017=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322291 · Owensboro, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Edgewell Personal Ca…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~339 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edgewell Personal Care - Playtex (0.0 TCR gap)

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K-C Owensboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K-C Owensboro averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock BLS benchmark).

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

K-C Owensboro TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where K-C Owensboro falls in its industry

113 Sanitary products made from pu establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Sanitary products made from pu employers in Kentucky.

K-C Owensboro (339 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate K-C Owensboro
K-C Owensboro (339 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.3

K-C Owensboro has more employees than the Sanitary products made from purchased sa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2016 0.9 0.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322291 · KY · Owensboro

113 Sanitary products made from purchased sanitary paper stock 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 Edgewell Personal Care - Playtex 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Tranzonic Companies - Corporate Office 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marcal Paper - Maiden 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beck's Classic Mfg. Inc 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 589 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE The United States Playing Card Company 338 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoskin and Muir 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE LockNet 338 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 Nelson Electric Company 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HUNTSVILLE_AL 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Signode Industrial Products LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR REN450 Brand Standards 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE US - Supply Chain : 0004 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE StandardAero San Antonio 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthSouth Deaconess 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willoughby Hills Family Health Center 339 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: 2017, 2016. 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.