Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Iowa

K&M Tire Grinnell

Grinnell, IA · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

K&M Tire Grinnell runs at 611% 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 Grinnell: 13.4 TCR = 611% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&M Tire Grinnell safety composite

K&M Tire Grinnell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−11.8

2019→2024

K&M Tire Grinnell injury rate improved

K&M Tire Grinnell's TCR fell 11.8 from 18.0 in 2019 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=18.0 · 2020=21.0 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Grinnell, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 611% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Sumitomo Rubber Nort…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sumitomo Rubber North America Inc. Florida DC (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

K&M Tire Grinnell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&M Tire Grinnell averages 13.4 TCR (611% 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 Grinnell TCR series: 2019=18 · 2020=21 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where K&M Tire Grinnell falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #4 safest of 4 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Iowa.

K&M Tire Grinnell (30 employees, TCR 13.4) 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 Grinnell
K&M Tire Grinnell (30 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

K&M Tire Grinnell 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 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2023 12.8 9.6 4 0 0
2022 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2021 15.4 11.6 4 0 0
2020 21.0 21.0 5 0 0
2019 18.0 18.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · IA · Grinnell

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 40 employers in Grinnell, 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 Sumitomo Rubber North America Inc. Florida DC 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 107 Orlando 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spokane - 845 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR K & M Tire - Rochester 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Grinnell Windows 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - Windows-Grinnell 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Customer Experience US 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Centerville Operation LLC 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Companies, Inc 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NCC001 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dick Peixoto Company 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Titan Metal Worx 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Door Systems 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE HST Construction 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbyrne Cabinetry, Inc. 30 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, 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.