Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) · Texas

Hi-Way Auto

Brownwood, TX · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hi-Way Auto runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade F.

Hi-Way Auto: 8.4 TCR = 246% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hi-Way Auto safety composite

Hi-Way Auto scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Hi-Way Auto held a steady TCR band

Hi-Way Auto's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.5 in 2023 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.5 · 2024=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Brownwood, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #79/89
  • PHOTO PBY MI Farmington
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PBY MI Farmington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hi-Way Auto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hi-Way Auto averages 8.4 TCR (246% of the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS benchmark).

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

Hi-Way Auto TCR series: 2023=8.5 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Hi-Way Auto falls in its industry

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 89 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Texas.

Hi-Way Auto (40 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hi-Way Auto
Hi-Way Auto (40 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hi-Way Auto has more employees than the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 8.2 8.2 2 0 0
2023 8.5 8.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · TX · Brownwood

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 59 employers in Brownwood, 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 PBY MI Farmington 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Youngstown U-Pull-It 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 754 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Jobbers Supply, Inc. 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Feedyard 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6394-B2300 2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Girling Community Care - Brownwood 1,410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous 650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BROWNWOOD 622 FTE
NAT-TCR TRANSPORTATION 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR I Auman Machine Co Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayfinder Family Services 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Avamere Crestview of Portland 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Windsor 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Esstech, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enhanced Manufacturing Solutions, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton House of Sugar Hill 40 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: 2024, 2023. 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.