Academies, elementary or secondary · Kentucky

Owensboro Public Schools

Owensboro, KY · ~969 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owensboro Public Schools runs at 1031% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Owensboro Public Schools: 14.4 TCR = 1031% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owensboro Public Schools safety composite

Owensboro Public Schools scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 14.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 Public Schools: 2.6 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 31.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.11× in 2022

Owensboro Public Schools's TCR rose 6.9 from 2.6 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 31.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.11× 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 14.4 · 1031% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO ISD #701 District Wide
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~969 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISD #701 District Wide (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owensboro Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owensboro Public Schools averages 14.4 TCR (1031% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Owensboro Public Schools TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2021=31.1 · 2022=9.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Owensboro Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #9 safest of 10 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Kentucky.

Owensboro Public Schools (969 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Public Schools
Owensboro Public Schools (969 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Owensboro Public Schools has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary 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
2022 9.5 1.6 42 0 0
2021 31.1 16.5 17 0 0
2018 2.6 2.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · KY · Owensboro

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary 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 ISD #701 District Wide 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchings Elementary School 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elizabeth Green School 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VES - School 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE AIR GROUP BUILDING (KYARP) 964 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aleris Lewisport 982 FTE
STATE-SIZE Etown 956 FTE
STATE-SIZE WORLDPORT FREIGHT FACILITY (KYSVL) 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyotestsu Mid America LLC 769 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0027-0026-03411 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 417543-Scr-West Sta 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 548350-Tac-Fife Carrier Anx 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Associates of Spokane Inc 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jackson Manufacturing Facility 969 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delaware County Memorial Hospital 969 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Specialty Brands Headquarters 969 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dli1 969 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: 2022, 2021, 2018. 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.