Automotive repair and replacement shops, general · Vermont

Good News Garage

Burlington, VT · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Good News Garage runs at 381% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive repair and replacement shops, general workplace, earning a grade F.

Good News Garage: 8.0 TCR = 381% of Automotive repair and replacement shops, general BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Good News Garage safety composite

Good News Garage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−16.3

2016→2020

Good News Garage injury rate improved

Good News Garage's TCR fell 16.3 from 16.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.3 · 2018=7.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811111 · Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 381% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Transportation Center
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transportation Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Good News Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Good News Garage averages 8.0 TCR (381% of the Automotive repair and replacement shops, general BLS benchmark).

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

Good News Garage TCR series: 2016=16.3 · 2018=7.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Good News Garage falls in its industry

609 Automotive repair and replacem establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Good News Garage (31 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Good News Garage
Good News Garage (31 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Good News Garage has fewer employees than the Automotive repair and replacement shops, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2016 16.3 12.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811111 · VT · Burlington

609 Automotive repair and replacement shops, general employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 96 employers in Burlington, VT · 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 Transportation Center 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7735 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEC ENTERPRISES LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARS Recon Inc Fredericksburg 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cole Electric 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mountain Solar 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haddad Subaru of St. Albans 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fisher Auto Parts - SHELVT 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Center Inc 1,483 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102 South Winooski 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1138 Pine 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burton Corporation 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Fruit Packing #3 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Winder Distribution Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Door Company of Lancaster, Pa (Rowens Enterprises) 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avalon Precision Casting 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE SL Wheelerburg LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Affordable 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excalibur Conneaut Lake 31 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: 2020, 2018, 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.