Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers · Texas

8406 Kao

Flower Mound, TX · ~137 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

8406 Kao runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

8406 Kao: 10.0 TCR = 453% of Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

8406 Kao safety composite

8406 Kao scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

8406 Kao: 3.4 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2023

8406 Kao's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Flower Mound, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 453% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #55/58
  • PHOTO Parts Authority Area…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parts Authority Area 23 (0.0 TCR gap)

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8406 Kao in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 8406 Kao averages 10.0 TCR (453% 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

8406 Kao TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=15.6 · 2021=26.2 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where 8406 Kao falls in its industry

950 Automotive parts, new, merchan establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 58 Automotive parts, new, merchan employers in Texas.

8406 Kao (137 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 8406 Kao
8406 Kao (137 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

8406 Kao has more 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
2023 3.9 3.9 5 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 7 0 0
2021 26.2 25.0 22 0 0
2020 15.6 13.2 20 0 0
2019 12.2 10.8 18 0 0
2018 6.7 6.0 10 0 0
2017 6.9 4.0 12 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · TX · Flower Mound

950 Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 93 employers in Flower Mound, TX · 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 Parts Authority Area 23 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 026/Orlando 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Battery System of Southern California, INC. 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCI Automotive 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DON KRUEGER CONSTRUCTION CO. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE RL Siteworx, Inc. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samuel EPC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lone StarPaving Company - San Antonio 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR MI Windows and Doors 805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Health Flower Mound 725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Endoscopy Communications 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flower Mound TX 511 FTE
NAT-TCR L&E Tubing, LLC 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Miravida Living 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Cromwell 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Granite Hills Healthcare & Wellness Ctr 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Drive #207 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doylestown 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Health Services Youngstown 137 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.