Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers · Kansas

K&M Tire - Lawrence

Lawrence, KS · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K&M Tire - Lawrence runs at 314% 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 - Lawrence: 6.9 TCR = 314% of Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K&M Tire - Lawrence safety composite

K&M Tire - Lawrence scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 - Lawrence: 5.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

K&M Tire - Lawrence's TCR rose 5.3 from 5.0 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423130 · Lawrence, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 314% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO 6232-3021
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6232-3021 (0.0 TCR gap)

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K&M Tire - Lawrence in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K&M Tire - Lawrence averages 6.9 TCR (314% 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 - Lawrence TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 2.2

Where K&M Tire - Lawrence falls in its industry

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube me establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Motor vehicle tire and tube me employers in Kansas.

K&M Tire - Lawrence (21 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 - Lawrence
K&M Tire - Lawrence (21 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 5.6

K&M Tire - Lawrence 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 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2023 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423130 · KS · Lawrence

438 Motor vehicle tire and tube merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, KS · 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 6232-3021 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Autoforce Denver 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northbay - 312 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReadyLIFT 1055 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 101-107, 127 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hills Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Rush Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordon Evans Energy Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 484 348 FTE
NAT-TCR GDC Properties, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalispel Linen Services 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Twelve Oaks 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond Steel Rule Dies, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE K&M Tire - Mustang 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dwyer Instruments Inc - South Bend IN 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gregory Plant 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eugene Oregon Branch - Pacific Office Automation Inc. 21 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.