New car dealers · Indiana

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc

Fort Wayne, IN · ~189 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade A.

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc: 1.0 TCR = 29% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc safety composite

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc: 0.5 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.5 in 2021 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #4/35
  • PHOTO Ford of Upland
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ford of Upland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Don Ayres Pontiac Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Don Ayres Pontiac Inc averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc TCR series: 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Don Ayres Pontiac Inc falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 35 New car dealers employers in Indiana.

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc (189 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Don Ayres Pontiac Inc
Don Ayres Pontiac Inc (189 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Don Ayres Pontiac Inc has more employees than the New car dealers median and a lower 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 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.7 0.9 4 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IN · Fort Wayne

2,847 New car dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 Ford of Upland 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ken Vance Motors, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA MARIA NISSAN MAZDA 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt of Ft. Smith 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Custom Concrete Co, Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburgh DVA 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vernet US Corporation 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 9065 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Laser Mechanisms, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Prairie TX Millwork 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lombardo Homes of Michigan 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CBM Systems 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Nashville Downtown 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Foam - Dayton 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sentinel Peak Resources 189 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.