Goodyear reports higher accident rate

Akron, Ohio – After several years of improvements, Goodyear has suffered a setback in its factory safety performance, the US tire maker’s recently issued Corporate Responsibility report for 2016 shows.

Goodyear’s CR report – titled GRI Index and Corporate responsibility full text – for 2016 includes a chart indicating that the total incident rate (TIR) across global manufacturing group increased to 1.97, up from 1.76 last year.

As explained in its 2015 CR report, Goodyear calculates TIR from the number of cases multiplied by 200,000 divided by total work hours - to get a percentage of the number of injuries per 100 employees.

However, the ‘full text’ CR document for 2016 carried less data about Goodyear’s health & safety performance compared to previous reports.

For example, last year Goodyear said it received notifications of 19 safety and environmental violations and incurred $64,178 in fines in 2015.  No such information was provided in the CR report for 2016.

There was, again, no reference to incidents at Goodyear’s Danville tire plant, where four people were killed in separate incidents between August 2015 to August 2016.