Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers · West Virginia

Matheny Motors - Nitro

Nitro, WV · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matheny Motors - Nitro runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Matheny Motors - Nitro: 3.8 TCR = 174% of Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matheny Motors - Nitro safety composite

Matheny Motors - Nitro scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Matheny Motors - Nitro: 0.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2022

Matheny Motors - Nitro's TCR rose 7.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Nitro, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Kenworth of PA Shart…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kenworth of PA Shartlesville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Matheny Motors - Nitro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matheny Motors - Nitro averages 3.8 TCR (174% of the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Matheny Motors - Nitro TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Matheny Motors - Nitro falls in its industry

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Trucks, road, merchant wholesa employers in West Virginia.

Matheny Motors - Nitro (32 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Matheny Motors - Nitro
Matheny Motors - Nitro (32 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Matheny Motors - Nitro has fewer employees than the Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2022 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.5 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · WV · Nitro

1,333 Trucks, road, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nitro, WV · 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 Kenworth of PA Shartlesville 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MANHEIM PENSACOLA 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Remarketing 409C 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1013 RTC FT. WORTH 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moundsville Fractionator 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vecellio & Grogan_ Job # 1003001 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIMCO INC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims Moorefield Live Operations 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Construction Services 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nitro Electric 001 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Pipeline Services, Inc. 298 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-PA 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tennessee Steel Center 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Real Estate Services, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 241 Hawthorne Elementary 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG840 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seal-Co Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cross Technologies Group, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-ND 32 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: 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.