Motor vehicle tires manufacturing · New York

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC

Tonawanda, NY · ~1,396 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle tires manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Motor vehicle tires manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC safety composite

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.1

2018→2024

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC injury rate improved

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC's TCR fell 1.1 from 3.9 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.9 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326211 · Tonawanda, NY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK P54
  • PHOTO Warren County (BAMG)
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 216 inj
  • SIZE ~1,396 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Warren County (BAMG) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Motor vehicle tires manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC falls in its industry

114 Motor vehicle tires manufactur establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC (1,396 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC
Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC (1,396 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 393 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC has more employees than the Motor vehicle tires manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.8 2.4 28 4 0
2023 3.5 2.6 44 2 0
2022 2.7 2.3 29 5 0
2021 2.2 1.8 24 3 0
2020 2.2 1.3 17 7 0
2019 3.1 2.2 34 5 0
2018 3.9 2.3 40 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326211 · NY · Tonawanda

114 Motor vehicle tires manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, NY · 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 Warren County (BAMG) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coker Tire Company 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BF Goodrich Tire Mfg 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Human Technologies US5 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mid-Hudson Valley Staffco 1,401 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOBALFOUNDRIES East Fishkill 1,390 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adams Fairacre Farms, Inc. 1,390 FTE
STATE-SIZE 72001 1,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR John W Danforth Company 956 FTE
NAT-TCR Jefferson Markets 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Service Authority 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sulphur 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McNamara Contracting, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
NAT-SIZE Six Flags Over Texas 1,396 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downtown Bartlesville 1,396 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amzl : Dba2 1,396 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, 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.