Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~13 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville runs at 484% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville: 10.7 TCR = 484% of Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville safety composite

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 31.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville: 0.0 → 31.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 31.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville's TCR rose 31.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 31.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423140 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 484% of ind

  • DART 31.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO 1265 PYP Anaheim
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1265 PYP Anaheim (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville averages 10.7 TCR (484% of the Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=31.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville falls in its industry

235 Used parts, motor vehicle, mer establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Used parts, motor vehicle, mer employers in Kentucky.

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville (13 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville
Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville (13 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Bessler Auto Parts of Louisville has fewer employees than the Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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
2021 31.9 31.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423140 · KY · Louisville

235 Used parts, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1265 PYP Anaheim 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1160 LKQ SAVANNAH, INC. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1103 LKQ Ft. Myers 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR REVOLVE MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Scotts Company - Cave City 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Kentucky Door and Specialties, LLC. 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plumbers Supply Company - East End 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appliance Park NS 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR 1224 Wilmington 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR National Auto Parts-Oakland LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynbrook 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside 10.7 TCR

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: 2021, 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.