Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Kerle Tire

Clarion, PA · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerle Tire runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Kerle Tire: 1.6 TCR = 74% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerle Tire safety composite

Kerle Tire scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kerle Tire: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kerle Tire's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Clarion, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/20
  • PHOTO N Baltimore - 204
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: N Baltimore - 204 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerle Tire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerle Tire averages 1.6 TCR (74% 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

Kerle Tire TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=3 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Kerle Tire falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Pennsylvania.

Kerle Tire (32 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Kerle Tire
Kerle Tire (32 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Kerle Tire has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant who 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · PA · Clarion

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 27 employers in Clarion, PA · 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 N Baltimore - 204 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Wholesale Tire of Cedar Rapids 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Friend Tire Company - Oklahoma City, OK 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE KNOUSE FRUITLANDS, INC. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paramount Mushroom Farms LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wharf 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAJ Mushroom 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLARION HOSPITAL 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2477_4623 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2540 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2540 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Hewlett District 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Enclosure Walls, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MN Board of Animal Health Headquarters 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sekisui Diagnostics 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aslan Construction, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Saint Hotel, Autograph Collection 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEW Construction - Keene Office 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE CalmaxTechnology02 32 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.