Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing · Kentucky

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc.

Bowling Green, KY · ~182 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 83% of Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. safety composite

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc.: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2024

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 83% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO MG MTX
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MG MTX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (83% of the Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=3.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. falls in its industry

470 Automobile bodies, passenger c establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

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 12 Automobile bodies, passenger c employers in Kentucky.

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. (182 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc.
Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. (182 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Kobelco Aluminum Products & Extrusions Inc. has more employees than the Automobile bodies, passenger car, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2024 4.1 3.5 13 1 0
2020 3.8 3.8 6 0 0
2019 4.2 3.4 5 0 0
2018 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KY · Bowling Green

470 Automobile bodies, passenger car, 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 MG MTX 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vactor Manufacturing 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardone Plant 65 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HPI-IA 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Art's Electric, Inc. dba AE Electrical Solutions 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Company 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Plant 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1006 LOWE S OF RICHMOND KY. 182 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 I & MJ Gross Company 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4-S Manufacturing Texas LLC dba East Texas Precast 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pierre Part Store, L.L.C. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 282 - Alpena MI 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production Castings, Inc. 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendora 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway Solutions LLC - Denver CO Branch 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller Clapperton Partnership Inc 182 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.