Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing · Kentucky

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant

Bowling Green, KY · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant safety composite

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327213 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK P53
  • PHOTO Owens-Illinois, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens-Illinois, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Beverage containers, glass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant falls in its industry

98 Beverage containers, glass, ma establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant (44 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant
Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant (44 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 236 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Owens Illinois - Bowling Green Plant has fewer employees than the Beverage containers, glass, manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 7.7 3.8 3 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327213 · KY · Bowling Green

98 Beverage containers, glass, 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 Owens-Illinois, Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Sapulpa 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerresheimer Glass Inc 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Ruston 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DMK Development Group 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC630 - Louisville, KY 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. J. Corman Signaling Company, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jett's Specialty Contracting, LLC 44 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 Kempf Philadelphia 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudolph Foods Company New Hebron 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Bellmore 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Job Creation LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DS Products 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triple J Drywall & Carpentry, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale high point north memory care 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucker Greenville 44 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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