Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Texas

K&M Tire Houston

Houston, TX · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&M Tire Houston runs at 211% 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 Houston: 4.6 TCR = 211% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&M Tire Houston safety composite

K&M Tire Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 Houston: 4.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2024

K&M Tire Houston's TCR rose 3.9 from 4.0 in 2018 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 211% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #15/36
  • PHOTO Kirby Motor Cars - S…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kirby Motor Cars - Subaru (0.0 TCR gap)

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K&M Tire Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&M Tire Houston averages 4.6 TCR (211% 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 Houston TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=12.4 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where K&M Tire Houston falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 36 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Texas.

K&M Tire Houston (24 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 K&M Tire Houston
K&M Tire Houston (24 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

K&M Tire Houston 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 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2022 12.4 12.4 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · TX · Houston

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Kirby Motor Cars - Subaru 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moorpark - 304 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL103 Chicago WH 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee - 515 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Sales 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springlake Dairy LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineywoods Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darty Gin Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Baptist Health Medical Center - Heber Springs 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Table Topics 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Klebs Mechanical Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S&R Egg Farm Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sole Supports, Inc. Hohenwald 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Protective Coatings 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aztec Containers 24 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, 2018. 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.