COMPONENT PLANT · Kentucky

Kight Component Plant 536

Bowling Green, KY · ~65 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kight Component Plant 536 runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical COMPONENT PLANT workplace, earning a grade D.

Kight Component Plant 536: 6.1 TCR = 185% of COMPONENT PLANT BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kight Component Plant 536 safety composite

Kight Component Plant 536 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Kight Component Plant 536: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

Kight Component Plant 536's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Progress Truss LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Progress Truss LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kight Component Plant 536 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kight Component Plant 536 averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the COMPONENT PLANT BLS benchmark).

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

Kight Component Plant 536 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=19.3 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Kight Component Plant 536 falls in its industry

421 COMPONENT PLANT establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 COMPONENT PLANT employers in Kentucky.

Kight Component Plant 536 (65 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kight Component Plant 536
Kight Component Plant 536 (65 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Kight Component Plant 536 has more employees than the COMPONENT PLANT median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 6.2 2.3 8 0 0
2023 19.3 5.3 8 3 0
2022 10.3 6.2 10 0 0
2021 5.7 0.0 5 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · KY · Bowling Green

421 COMPONENT PLANT 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 Progress Truss LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Roof Trusses 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maronda Systems of Florida 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS INC 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowlin Group LLC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ion Apex Electric 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kelsey Construction 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stark Truss Co., Inc. Franklin, KY 65 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 ShopRite of Montgomery 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Swaner Hardwood Co., Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR San Joaquin County Facilities Management Department 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fullford Electric, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carter Component Plant 542 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sourdough Transfer, Inc. / Fairbanks 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Pollution Control Plant 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Metal Rolled Products 65 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, 2019, 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.