Farm supply stores · Kentucky

Southern States Bowling Green Coop.

Bowling Green, KY · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern States Bowling Green Coop.: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. safety composite

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.7

2017→2022

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. injury rate improved

Southern States Bowling Green Coop.'s TCR fell 5.7 from 5.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.1 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/15
  • PHOTO Windy Hill Farm, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Windy Hill Farm, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern States Bowling Green Coop. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern States Bowling Green Coop. averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.1 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Southern States Bowling Green Coop. falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Farm supply stores employers in Kentucky.

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. (20 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern States Bowling Green Coop.
Southern States Bowling Green Coop. (20 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Southern States Bowling Green Coop. has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · KY · Bowling Green

642 Farm supply stores 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 Windy Hill Farm, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Oconomowoc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jesse Israel and Sons Garden Center 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange-Madison Coop. - Orange Branch 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daysville 20 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 AGS Manufacturing, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-TN 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greif (IP ROCK HILL) 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4647 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suncrest Assisted Living 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaine Brothers, Inc - H.S.I. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Statesville Fertilizer Plant and Warehouse 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crowne of Montgomery (Housekeeping) 20 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.