Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Texas

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston

Houston, TX · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston: 8.1 TCR = 370% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston safety composite

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2017→2019

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston injury rate improved

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston's TCR fell 0.6 from 4.3 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.3 · 2018=16.4 · 2019=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 370% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/36
  • PHOTO TWI Tire Wholsalers …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TWI Tire Wholsalers Company, Inc. Troy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston averages 8.1 TCR (370% of the Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=16.4 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #28 safest of 36 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Texas.

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston (21 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston
Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston (21 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant who median and a higher 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
2019 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 16.4 16.4 4 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · TX · Houston

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 TWI Tire Wholsalers Company, Inc. Troy 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington - 080 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fargo 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Tire - Dover 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Cattle Feeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Waterloo 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Oak Enterprises 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer DC-805 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kerber Sheet Metal Works, Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE EnerSys Sumner 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn and Suites Martinsburg 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. 21 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.