Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance · North Carolina

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc.

Cornelius, NC · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance workplace, earning a grade D.

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 190% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. safety composite

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.2

2019→2021

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. injury rate improved

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.2 from 11.2 in 2019 to 8.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=11.2 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Cornelius, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 190% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #32/33
  • PHOTO W. N. Morehouse Truc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W. N. Morehouse Truck Line, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (190% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. TCR series: 2019=11.2 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. falls in its industry

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 33 Trucking, specialized freight employers in North Carolina.

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. (60 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc.
Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. (60 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. has more employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 8.0 1.6 5 0 0
2020 6.4 0.0 3 1 0
2019 11.2 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · NC · Cornelius

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 30 employers in Cornelius, NC · 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 W. N. Morehouse Truck Line, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mira Loma Terminal 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowell C Hagen Trucking, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOPE, AR -DANA DIVISION 2 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skaale Energy Control Center 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winston Salem Resource Center - PNG 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipeline Utilities Inc. 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gates Construction Company, Inc. 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00179 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1474 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00416 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite Contracting LLC 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Colormasters 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Bay Masonry, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Plant 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Werner Enterprises/Joliet IL Terminal 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Masonry Restoration 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duran Golf Club, LLC. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Largo Neighborhood 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kewley Building 60 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.