General Freight · Kentucky

MTS Bowling Green

Bowling Green, KY · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MTS Bowling Green runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight workplace, earning a grade D.

MTS Bowling Green: 5.4 TCR = 120% of General Freight BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MTS Bowling Green safety composite

MTS Bowling Green scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

MTS Bowling Green: 4.8 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

MTS Bowling Green's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.8 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #34/47
  • PHOTO West Atlanta
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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MTS Bowling Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MTS Bowling Green averages 5.4 TCR (120% of the General Freight BLS benchmark).

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

MTS Bowling Green TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=6 · BLS 4.5

Where MTS Bowling Green falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 47 General Freight employers in Kentucky.

MTS Bowling Green (18 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MTS Bowling Green
MTS Bowling Green (18 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

MTS Bowling Green has fewer employees than the General Freight median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2017 - - 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · KY · Bowling Green

3,252 General Freight 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR West Atlanta 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMT Houston 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marietta Terminal-NON DOT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jet Intermodal, Inc. 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Construction 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbine Construction Company, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 850 Tech Drive 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Systems, Inc. 18 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 Allegiance Specialty Hospital of Greenville 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Woods 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LifeCare Ambulance 5.4 TCR

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, 2017. 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.