Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) · Alabama

Knox Auto Parts

Birmingham, AL · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knox Auto Parts runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade F.

Knox Auto Parts: 9.8 TCR = 289% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knox Auto Parts safety composite

Knox Auto Parts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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 9.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Knox Auto Parts: 5.7 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

Knox Auto Parts's TCR rose 8.2 from 5.7 in 2023 to 13.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 289% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO GRAHAM AUTOMOTIVE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GRAHAM AUTOMOTIVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knox Auto Parts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knox Auto Parts averages 9.8 TCR (289% of the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Knox Auto Parts TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Knox Auto Parts falls in its industry

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Alabama.

Knox Auto Parts (49 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knox Auto Parts
Knox Auto Parts (49 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Knox Auto Parts has more employees than the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 13.9 13.9 5 0 0
2023 5.7 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · AL · Birmingham

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 GRAHAM AUTOMOTIVE 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBY CA Downey Lakewood Blvd 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - E-TOWN 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 815 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Poultry Specialists/Production 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Talladega Hatchery 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE SS-Harvest West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE James R. Fincher Timber Co. 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR La Strada Pipeline, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Se - Telford Truss 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodland Elementary School 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme Manufacturing Company, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thatcher Company of California Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mainplace Senior Living 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Danbury Woods Cuyahoga Falls 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0464 49 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. 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.