Spring waters, purifying and bottling · Kentucky
Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc
Middlesboro, KY · ~201 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.9
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Spring waters, purifying and bottling workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 62
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.9 to the Spring waters, purifying and bottling BLS benchmark of 3.3 (118% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc falls in its industry
206 Spring waters, purifying and b establishmentsSafer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.
Trend analysis for Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc
Between 2019 and 2024, Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc's Total Case Rate improved from 5.8 to 0.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 97% decrease across 5 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.2, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 5.8, a spread of 5.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 6 reporting years, Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc recorded 47 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 62 injuries, 2 illnesses shown on this page for Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 312112 - Spring waters, purifying and bottling.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,539,312 hours worked = 0.18 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc (this establishment) | 3.88 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 312112 |
| Kentucky state avg (all industries) | 4.39 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 8 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 9 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 16 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2067.2 | 258.4 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Spring waters, purifying and bottling peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 118% of the Spring waters, purifying and bottling benchmark, Middlesboro Coca Cola Bottling Works Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Spring waters, purifying and bottling sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.