Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Iowa

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA

Carter Lake, IA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA runs at 545% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA: 12.0 TCR = 545% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA safety composite

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA: 8.2 → 18.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2024

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA's TCR rose 10.0 from 8.2 in 2022 to 18.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Carter Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 545% of ind

  • DART 18.2 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO 23
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 23 (0.0 TCR gap)

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K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA averages 12.0 TCR (545% 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

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA TCR series: 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=18.2 · BLS 2.2

Where K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Iowa.

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA (22 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA
K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA (22 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

K&M Tire Carter Lake, IA 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
2024 18.2 18.2 4 0 0
2023 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2022 8.2 8.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · IA · Carter Lake

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Carter Lake, IA · 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 23 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Tire Commercial & Off-Road Store #6 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6232-3041 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rancho Cucamonga - 307 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lone Mountain Truck Leasing, LLC 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR PVS (Paxton Vierling Steel) Metals 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR PVS (Paxton Vierling Steel) Structures 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patriot Custom Metals 47 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Phoenix B20 Police Dpt 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Channing House 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adrian Steel of Missouri 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Watsonville Health Center (WA) 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buda TX Panel 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pocatello ID Truss 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indio CA Yard 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Del Rio Sector 22 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, 2022. 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.