Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing · Kentucky

Nova Steel

Bowling Green, KY · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nova Steel runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nova Steel: 10.7 TCR = 323% of Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nova Steel safety composite

Nova Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−12.2

2023→2024

Nova Steel injury rate improved

Nova Steel's TCR fell 12.2 from 16.8 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.8 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 323% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO 3948_7562
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3948_7562 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nova Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nova Steel averages 10.7 TCR (323% of the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nova Steel TCR series: 2023=16.8 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nova Steel falls in its industry

470 Truck bodies and cabs manufact establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #11 safest of 12 Truck bodies and cabs manufact employers in Kentucky.

Nova Steel (138 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 Nova Steel
Nova Steel (138 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Nova Steel has more employees than the Truck bodies and cabs manufacturing median and a higher 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 4.6 3.9 6 1 0
2023 16.8 15.9 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · KY · Bowling Green

470 Truck bodies and cabs 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 3948_7562 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST Engineering Hackney Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Bodyworks 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adkins Truck Equipment Co. 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Operations Center 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE MHS - Ontario, CA 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mago Construction 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filtration : Cambellsville 138 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 Txuva - Uvalde 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Unique Building Group, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucker Industries Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR On The Spot Transportation 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nachi America Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE James B. Donaghey 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ncduh - Morrisville 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orspr - Springfield 138 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.