Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Powell Tire & Axle Inc

Loris, SC · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Powell Tire & Axle Inc runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Powell Tire & Axle Inc: 8.2 TCR = 375% of Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell Tire & Axle Inc safety composite

Powell Tire & Axle Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Powell Tire & Axle Inc: 4.8 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Powell Tire & Axle Inc's TCR rose 5.5 from 4.8 in 2017 to 10.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Loris, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 375% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO 3895 Sun Valley
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3895 Sun Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Powell Tire & Axle Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell Tire & Axle Inc averages 8.2 TCR (375% of the Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Powell Tire & Axle Inc TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=10.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Powell Tire & Axle Inc falls in its industry

950 Motor vehicle parts and access establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Motor vehicle parts and access employers in South Carolina.

Powell Tire & Axle Inc (41 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Powell Tire & Axle Inc
Powell Tire & Axle Inc (41 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Powell Tire & Axle Inc has fewer employees than the Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 10.3 0.0 3 1 0
2019 9.6 7.2 4 0 0
2017 4.8 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · SC · Loris

950 Motor vehicle parts and accessories, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Loris, SC · 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 3895 Sun Valley 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 020/Portland 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3339 Keystone 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami Warehouse National Auto Parts Warehouse 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bad Creek Hydro 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCMEEKIN STEAM PLANT 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgefield County Water and Sewer Authority 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unitherm Columbia 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLEOD-LORIS COMMUNITY HOSP 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Health Loris 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHF Industries, Inc. - Distribution Facility 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loris Rehab and Nursing Center 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Latham Packaged Pools - Scotia, NY 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Jameson Inc - CA 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dok1 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1413 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 440 Seaview Avenue 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creekside Inn 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomday Granite & Marble 41 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.