Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) · Alaska

Dowling Store

Anchorage, AK · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dowling Store runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade D.

Dowling Store: 5.0 TCR = 146% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dowling Store safety composite

Dowling Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−1.3

2016→2019

Dowling Store injury rate improved

Dowling Store's TCR fell 1.3 from 5.6 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2019=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Anchorage, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 146% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Store 4002 - CQ Nort…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 4002 - CQ North West 10t (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dowling Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dowling Store averages 5.0 TCR (146% of the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS benchmark).

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

Dowling Store TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Dowling Store falls in its industry

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Alaska.

Dowling Store (52 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dowling Store
Dowling Store (52 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Dowling Store has more employees than the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2016 5.6 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · AK · Anchorage

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 704 employers in Anchorage, AK · 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 Store 4002 - CQ North West 10t 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2830 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAX - Orange Park 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBY CT Berlin 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glacier Oil and Gas Corp 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pruhs Construction Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Slope Telecom, Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - BPXA North Slope Refinery 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000198 4,453 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK10 PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CTR-ANCHORAGE 2,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alaska Native Medical Center 2,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR GCI Communication Corp. 1,935 FTE
NAT-TCR Rapp Road IRA 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochester Inlet 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 195 Rainville Road 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 15 Summer School Rd 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wesco - Tooling Ft. Worth 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolfrum Roofing and Exteriors 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE UFP Eagan, LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0026 0453 52 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: 2019, 2016. 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.