Motor vehicle towing services · Texas

Southside Wrecker INC

Austin, TX · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southside Wrecker INC runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle towing services workplace, earning a grade D.

Southside Wrecker INC: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Motor vehicle towing services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southside Wrecker INC safety composite

Southside Wrecker INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2023→2024

Southside Wrecker INC injury rate improved

Southside Wrecker INC's TCR fell 2.3 from 9.2 in 2023 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.2 · 2024=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Bob Carlson Towing -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southside Wrecker INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southside Wrecker INC averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Motor vehicle towing services BLS benchmark).

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

Southside Wrecker INC TCR series: 2023=9.2 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Southside Wrecker INC falls in its industry

157 Motor vehicle towing services establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Motor vehicle towing services employers in Texas.

Southside Wrecker INC (41 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southside Wrecker INC
Southside Wrecker INC (41 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Southside Wrecker INC has more employees than the Motor vehicle towing services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2023 9.2 2.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · TX · Austin

157 Motor vehicle towing services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A to Z Enterprises Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J-M Northwest, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAA Club Alliance Cinn Fleet 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Val Verde Vegetable Co., Inc. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS QUIEN SABE LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE BREEDER / BROILER DEPARTMENT 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Expo12 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Hammond Glen 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chandler Terminal 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Dublin 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heide & Cook, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dunn & Co, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Park Senior Living 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Place Senior Living 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titan Industries Inc 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.