Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers · Oregon

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem

Salem, OR · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem: 8.0 TCR = 364% of Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem safety composite

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem: 4.7 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.36× in 2020

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem's TCR rose 6.2 from 4.7 in 2018 to 10.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Salem, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 364% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Kentuckiana's Premie…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kentuckiana's Premier Truck Center-Indiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem averages 8.0 TCR (364% of the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=10.9 · BLS 2.2

Where 1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem falls in its industry

950 Automotive parts, new, merchan establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 21 Automotive parts, new, merchan employers in Oregon.

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem (21 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem
1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem (21 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem has fewer employees than the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 10.9 10.9 2 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2018 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · OR · Salem

950 Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, OR · 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 Kentuckiana's Premier Truck Center-Indiana 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - RIWHSE 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parts Authority IA - Waterloo 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland HVC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Giant Step Orchard 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capitol Farms, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scharf Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR Abrasive Technology (Elgin, Illinois) 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry County Medical Center EMS 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Forsman Farms HL 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Werner Enterprises/ELPTX Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meat Processing Plant 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAG Buick GMC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Tractor Harrison 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Tractor Jefferson City 21 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. 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.