Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Washington

Carter Motors

Seattle, WA · ~141 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carter Motors runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

Carter Motors: 7.9 TCR = 232% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Motors safety composite

Carter Motors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Carter Motors: 3.9 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Carter Motors's TCR rose 5.2 from 3.9 in 2021 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 232% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #46/52
  • PHOTO Day Ford
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Day Ford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carter Motors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carter Motors averages 7.9 TCR (232% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Carter Motors TCR series: 2021=3.9 · 2022=11.5 · 2023=7 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Carter Motors falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 52 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Washington.

Carter Motors (141 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Carter Motors
Carter Motors (141 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carter Motors has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.1 7.3 10 0 0
2023 7.0 6.1 6 2 0
2022 11.5 8.6 4 8 0
2021 3.9 3.9 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · WA · Seattle

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Day Ford 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Dodge Chrysler Jeep 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2156 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CMC Placing Washington 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puyallup Office 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE 229 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morton Division 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Coxreels 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trident Manufacturing 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coke Northeast - Rochester 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE PTC Liberty Tubulars LLC - Liberty Plant 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Oaks Healthcare Facility 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vincennes Bakery 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camp St. Croix 141 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, 2021. 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.