Automotive tire dealers · New York

Cheney Tire, Inc.

Watertown, NY · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheney Tire, Inc. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automotive tire dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cheney Tire, Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 124% of Automotive tire dealers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheney Tire, Inc. safety composite

Cheney Tire, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2020→2023

Cheney Tire, Inc. injury rate improved

Cheney Tire, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=13.4 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441320 · Watertown, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 124% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO TFT #596 BANGOR ME
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TFT #596 BANGOR ME (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheney Tire, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheney Tire, Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (124% of the Automotive tire dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Cheney Tire, Inc. TCR series: 2020=3.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=13.4 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Cheney Tire, Inc. falls in its industry

1,416 Automotive tire dealers establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Automotive tire dealers employers in New York.

Cheney Tire, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 8.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cheney Tire, Inc.
Cheney Tire, Inc. (30 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 8.2

Cheney Tire, Inc. has more employees than the Automotive tire dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.2. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.4 6.7 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441320 · NY · Watertown

1,416 Automotive tire dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 115 employers in Watertown, NY · 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 TFT #596 BANGOR ME 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 304 Orem 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR McGriff Montgomery Commercial 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Porterfield Tire, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hemdale Farms Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE My Forest Foods 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Part 2 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.W. Patterson, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 1,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1871 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Sylvania Country Club 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Arkansas Plant 1 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Connections, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6451-6477 Box Springs Blvd Riverside CA 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kevcor Services Inc DBA Two Men and a Truck 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tisch Environmental, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentucky Avenue 155 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Dairy Restaurant #9 30 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. 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.