Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers · California

Prime Wheel Corporation

Gardena, CA · ~425 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prime Wheel Corporation runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Prime Wheel Corporation: 7.6 TCR = 345% of Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prime Wheel Corporation safety composite

Prime Wheel Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Prime Wheel Corporation: 5.8 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2021

Prime Wheel Corporation's TCR rose 3.6 from 5.8 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 345% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #69/108
  • PHOTO Grade A Auto Parts
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grade A Auto Parts (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prime Wheel Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prime Wheel Corporation averages 7.6 TCR (345% of the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Prime Wheel Corporation TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2021=9.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Prime Wheel Corporation falls in its industry

950 Automotive parts, new, merchan establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 108 Automotive parts, new, merchan employers in California.

Prime Wheel Corporation (425 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Prime Wheel Corporation
Prime Wheel Corporation (425 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Prime Wheel Corporation has more employees than the Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesal 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
2021 9.4 9.4 16 5 0
2016 5.8 3.3 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · CA · Gardena

950 Automotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, CA · 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 Grade A Auto Parts 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AP MD NED Washington 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MA- Chelsea 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARTFORD HVC 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Springfield Farms 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clean Energy 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pro Wall Lath & Plaster 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hampshire Ball Bearings - Chatsworth 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR The Woods on French Creek 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Awg - Norfolk 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SCP Savannah Plant 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Headquarters 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE D Construction, Inc. 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Athens - 195 Collins Industrial Boulevard 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 32 - 35 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis Zoo 425 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: 2021, 2016. 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.