Retail Hardware Stores · Kentucky

Owensboro, Ky #02924

Owensboro, KY · ~16 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owensboro, Ky #02924 runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Owensboro, Ky #02924: 9.0 TCR = 264% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owensboro, Ky #02924 safety composite

Owensboro, Ky #02924 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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, Ky #02924: 15.7 → 29.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 29.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Owensboro, Ky #02924's TCR rose 13.4 from 15.7 in 2019 to 29.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 264% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/19
  • PHOTO EMCO---Gaithersburg
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMCO---Gaithersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owensboro, Ky #02924 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owensboro, Ky #02924 averages 9.0 TCR (264% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Owensboro, Ky #02924 TCR series: 2019=15.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=29.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Owensboro, Ky #02924 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 19 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Kentucky.

Owensboro, Ky #02924 (16 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Owensboro, Ky #02924
Owensboro, Ky #02924 (16 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Owensboro, Ky #02924 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 29.1 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 15.7 15.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · KY · Owensboro

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR EMCO---Gaithersburg 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0517 - DEWITT, NY 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VINELAND, NJ #00201 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Ace Hardware Yucaipa 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Board Investments USA, LLC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE 277-NiSource-Winchester KY-Shoppers Dr 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maxim Construction 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydaker-Wheatlake KY 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveland Hopkins International Airport 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0147 - Arapahoe 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6506 Houma Hesselbein Tire of LA 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunmore Health Care Center 9.0 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: 2023, 2022, 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.