Elementary and secondary schools · Kentucky

Owensboro Public Schools

Owenbsoro, KY · ~883 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owensboro Public Schools runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Owensboro Public Schools: 1.6 TCR = 114% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owensboro Public Schools safety composite

Owensboro Public Schools scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2019→2020

Owensboro Public Schools injury rate improved

Owensboro Public Schools's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.1 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Coventry Grammar Sch…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~883 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coventry Grammar School (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 1.6 TCR (114% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Owensboro Public Schools TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=1.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Owensboro Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #3 safest of 10 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Kentucky.

Owensboro Public Schools (883 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 (883 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower 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
2020 1.1 0.6 6 1 0
2019 2.1 1.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · KY · Owenbsoro

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 Coventry Grammar School 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hendricks Public School 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR High School 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACADEMY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation - Murray Operations 880 FTE
STATE-SIZE KYWON - RICHWOOD 876 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Inc 875 FTE
STATE-SIZE TJ Samson Community Hospital 874 FTE
NAT-TCR Savannah Volkswagon 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Energy Center Dover, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Brick-Athens Plant-Meridian 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cafe Patachou River Crossing 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camco mfg., Inc. 883 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acc 2150 Penn 883 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ippolito International 883 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: 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.