Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Bobs Tire Co

New Bedford, MA · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bobs Tire Co runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Bobs Tire Co: 2.9 TCR = 131% of Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bobs Tire Co safety composite

Bobs Tire Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2019→2024

Bobs Tire Co injury rate improved

Bobs Tire Co's TCR fell 0.8 from 3.9 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · New Bedford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO CEAR
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CEAR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bobs Tire Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bobs Tire Co averages 2.9 TCR (131% of the Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bobs Tire Co TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Bobs Tire Co falls in its industry

1,126 Tires, scrap, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 14 Tires, scrap, merchant wholesa employers in Massachusetts.

Bobs Tire Co (86 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bobs Tire Co
Bobs Tire Co (86 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Bobs Tire Co has more employees than the Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2023 4.6 2.8 4 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · MA · New Bedford

1,126 Tires, scrap, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, MA · 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 CEAR 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SA Recycling, Nashville Linder 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Didion Orf Recycling Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSP San Jose 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 871-NiSource-Springfield MA-Cust Op Ctr 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Boston 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milltown Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spence & Company 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR Bachman's Roofing, Building & Remodeling Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metropolitan Walters LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Products 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Osborn Health and Rehabilitation 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastern Metal Works Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transpro Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas MRF 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake Royal Roofing - Rialto 86 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.