Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green

Bowling Green, KY · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green runs at 924% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green: 20.3 TCR = 924% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green safety composite

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green: 21.0 → 25.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 25.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2020

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green's TCR rose 4.3 from 21.0 in 2017 to 25.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Bowling Green, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.3 · 924% of ind

  • DART 25.3 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO 6975-1L07
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6975-1L07 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green averages 20.3 TCR (924% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green TCR series: 2017=21 · 2018=21 · 2019=14 · 2020=25.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 25 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Kentucky.

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green (38 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green
Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green (38 employees, TCR 20.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Royal Crown Cola of Bowling Green has fewer employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 25.3 25.3 4 0 0
2019 14.0 14.0 4 0 0
2018 21.0 17.5 6 0 0
2017 21.0 21.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · KY · Bowling Green

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers 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 6975-1L07 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carson 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artisan Bakers 20.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6975-1L11 20.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lexington Substation Dept. & Relay 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Compressor Station 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2057 Mercer Rd 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Work 38 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 Pine Lodge Center 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Cotswold 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 054120-Lbc-North Carrier Anx 20.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 2256 20.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schilling Schu West 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE O.R. Builders 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Next Door Company 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aultman Carrollton 38 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, 2018, 2017. 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.