Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Illinois

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa

Ottawa, IL · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa: 3.5 TCR = 169% of Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa safety composite

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2022

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Ottawa, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #100/153
  • PHOTO 0549-Timken
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0549-Timken (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alta Equipment Company Ottawa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alta Equipment Company Ottawa averages 3.5 TCR (169% of the Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=2.4 · BLS 2.1

Where Alta Equipment Company Ottawa falls in its industry

2,560 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 153 Construction machinery and equ employers in Illinois.

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa (36 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Alta Equipment Company Ottawa
Alta Equipment Company Ottawa (36 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Alta Equipment Company Ottawa has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment rep median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 6.4 2.1 3 0 0
2020 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IL · Ottawa

2,560 Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Ottawa, IL · 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 0549-Timken 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid South Engine & Power Systems 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Tractor Irrigation, LLC - Irrigation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 581 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaSalle County 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00000036 0036 OTTAWA DC 415 FTE
NAT-TCR ATC Drivetrain ALC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Masonry & Building Restoraton 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Elementary School District #38 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalton Area Office - 1289 Abutment Rd Dalton 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Star #577 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #542 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #588 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Less Foods #590 36 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.