Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers · Texas

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX

Belton, TX · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX: 5.3 TCR = 241% of Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX safety composite

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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)
D 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX: 2.9 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.45× in 2022

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX's TCR rose 10.1 from 2.9 in 2016 to 13.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Belton, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 241% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO K&M Tire Beresford
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K&M Tire Beresford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX averages 5.3 TCR (241% of the Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=0 · 2022=13 · BLS 2.2

Where Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX falls in its industry

438 Tires, new, motor vehicle, mer establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Tires, new, motor vehicle, mer employers in Texas.

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX (29 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX
Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX (29 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Friend Tire Company - Belton, TX has fewer employees than the Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant whol median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2022 13.0 13.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · TX · Belton

438 Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 51 employers in Belton, TX · 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 K&M Tire Beresford 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mixing Warehouse/Lincolnton - 931 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauldin 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 18 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Hereford 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pepper Dairy 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE SROOC Holding LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Logging, LLC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1232 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1232 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR TXBEL - BELTON CENTER 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Crest Hospital 263 FTE
NAT-TCR 9277-160 Keystone Resort 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 540605-Bel-Main Office Sta 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 497446-Riverton Po 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 386559-Perrysburg Po 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Augusta Aug 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameriflight, LLC- Lansing 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2453-00060416-60416E 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISD 991- ELC Willmar 29 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: 2022, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.