Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Illinois

K&M Tire Chicago

Dekalb, IL · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&M Tire Chicago runs at 440% 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 Chicago: 9.7 TCR = 440% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&M Tire Chicago safety composite

K&M Tire Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 Chicago: 8.5 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2024

K&M Tire Chicago's TCR rose 10.4 from 8.5 in 2020 to 18.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Dekalb, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 440% of ind

  • DART 18.9 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO 135 Long Island NY
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 135 Long Island NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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K&M Tire Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&M Tire Chicago averages 9.7 TCR (440% 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 Chicago TCR series: 2020=8.5 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=5 · 2023=13.5 · 2024=18.9 · BLS 2.2

Where K&M Tire Chicago falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Illinois.

K&M Tire Chicago (43 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 Chicago
K&M Tire Chicago (43 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

K&M Tire Chicago has more 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 18.9 18.9 8 0 0
2023 13.5 13.5 6 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 8.5 8.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · IL · Dekalb

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 93 employers in Dekalb, IL · 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 135 Long Island NY 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6232-4750 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tire Distributor Xperts, LLC Dallas 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6232-8900 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manlove Storage Field 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - UDC-DeKalb 1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3842 - DeKalb UDC 1,411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeKalb Community Unit School District #428 940 FTE
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Plywood Inc 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Barrington 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Frc Transportation Services 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1272 - Shakopee 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Pet - Atlanta 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Cupboard Inn 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simon - McAtee / Sterling 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dawn Food Products - Salt Lake City Distribution 43 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, 2021, 2020. 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.