Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Oklahoma
Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma City, OK · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 1.6
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 1.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.6 to the Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (73% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK falls in its industry
452 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishmentsSafer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.
Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Oklahoma.
Trend analysis for Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK
Between 2016 and 2017, Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK's Total Case Rate improved from 3.2 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 3.2, a spread of 3.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK recorded 1 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 1 injuries shown on this page for Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423130 - Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2017)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 19,478 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK (this establishment) | 1.60 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Tires, new, motor vehicle, merchant wholesalers industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 423130 |
| Oklahoma state avg (all industries) | 4.32 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2017: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 73% of the Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers benchmark, Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.