Education · Kentucky

Owensboro Independent

Owensboro, KY · ~903 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owensboro Independent runs at 526% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Owensboro Independent: 7.4 TCR = 526% of Education BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owensboro Independent safety composite

Owensboro Independent scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Owensboro Independent: 3.9 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Owensboro Independent's TCR rose 8.7 from 3.9 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 526% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Flossmoor School Dis…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 134 inj
  • SIZE ~903 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flossmoor School District 161 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owensboro Independent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owensboro Independent averages 7.4 TCR (526% of the Education BLS benchmark).

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

Owensboro Independent TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=2.6 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Owensboro Independent falls in its industry

3,374 Education establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Education employers in Kentucky.

Owensboro Independent (903 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Owensboro Independent
Owensboro Independent (903 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Owensboro Independent has more employees than the Education median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 12.6 2.4 52 1 0
2023 10.4 3.6 46 0 0
2017 2.6 1.9 16 0 0
2016 3.9 3.2 20 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · KY · Owensboro

3,374 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, 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 Flossmoor School District 161 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centralia City Schools District #135 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS/OLIVER ELLSWORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chippewa Middle School 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hyster-Yale Group 902 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCS 1860 OUTER LOOP - 3756 (KYVLE) 906 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAINT JOSEPH EAST 897 FTE
STATE-SIZE KYCHB - CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERAGE 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotestsu Mid America LLC 769 FTE
NAT-TCR The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyglt - Gillette Facility 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wvelk - Elkins 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Of Choice #1 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Power Middle School 903 FTE
NAT-SIZE RWJ Health Network INC 903 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MTN2 903 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magna Seating Detroit 903 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, 2017, 2016. 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.