Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN

Name: Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN Workplace Safety Data
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Memphis, TN · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN: 1.7 TCR = 77% of Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN safety composite

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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 - Memphis, TN: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2022

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Memphis, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 77% of ind

DART 3.4 DART
RANK #2/13
PHOTO Hesselbein Tire Co.
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hesselbein Tire Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN averages 1.7 TCR (77% of the Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN falls in its industry

438 Tires, new, motor vehicle, mer establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Tires, new, motor vehicle, mer employers in Tennessee.

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN (34 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Friend Tire Company - Memphis, TN has more 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
2022	3.4	3.4	1
2021	3.4	3.4	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · TN · Memphis

438 Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hesselbein Tire Co.	JACKSON, MS	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	North Gateway Tire Co.	SEVILLE, OH	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	9002 McAllen Hesselbein Tire Southwest	MISSION, TX	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Best-One Tire	LIMA, OH	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Obion County Hatchery	UNION CITY	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UCEMC Cookeville	COOKEVILLE	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RKA Construction, LLC	MEMPHIS	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AGM-Tennessee	NASHVILLE	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR	Memphis	12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	381940311	Memphis	9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR	American Residential Services	Memphis	5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Memphis	5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR	Store 0882	Birmingham, AL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rutherfordton, Nc	Rutherfordton, NC	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	SHARP TRANSIT LLC Corporate Office	Salisbury, NC	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mahoning	Youngstown, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	KGPCo Ontario	Ontario, CA	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kreider Farms - Dairy	Manheim, PA	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	03-Alexander	Alexander, NY	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HG753	Newark, DE	34 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, 2021, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.