Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Nichols Bowling Green

Bowling Green, OH · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Bowling Green runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Bowling Green: 7.8 TCR = 354% of Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Bowling Green safety composite

Nichols Bowling Green scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.0

2019→2021

Nichols Bowling Green injury rate improved

Nichols Bowling Green's TCR fell 10.0 from 13.1 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=13.1 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424130 · Bowling Green, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 354% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #23/25
  • PHOTO 5842 Dayton, NJ
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5842 Dayton, NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Bowling Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Bowling Green averages 7.8 TCR (354% of the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols Bowling Green TCR series: 2019=13.1 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Nichols Bowling Green falls in its industry

290 Bags, paper and disposable pla establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 25 Bags, paper and disposable pla employers in Ohio.

Nichols Bowling Green (39 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nichols Bowling Green
Nichols Bowling Green (39 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Nichols Bowling Green has fewer employees than the Bags, paper and disposable plastics, mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2019 13.1 10.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424130 · OH · Bowling Green

290 Bags, paper and disposable plastics, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 98 employers in Bowling Green, OH · 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 5842 Dayton, NJ 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joshen Paper & Packaging, Co. (Michigan) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunzl Utah, LLC (DBA Bunzl Spokane) 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Valley Rivercor 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRW PACKING INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHI Greenhouse LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater Dairy LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rossburg Facility 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vehtek Systems Inc 856 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wood County Hospital 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1913 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR TH Plastics - Bowling Green 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Calcium Products Inc. - Fort Dodge 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR WellStar Atlanta Medical Center South 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Haywood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1153 - North Riverside Il Whse 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 31st and Wharton 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Coast Fabricators 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Component Systems, LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Plant 39 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.