Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Carter Machinery Company, Inc.

Name: Carter Machinery Company, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Salem, VA · ~2,763 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Carter Machinery Company, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 39% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. safety composite

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.4

2022→2023

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Carter Machinery Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 1.1 in 2022 to 0.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Salem, VA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 39% of ind

DART 0.3 DART
RANK #3/19
PHOTO McCoy Construction &…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 49 inj
SIZE ~2,763 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCoy Construction & Forestry - Grand Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Carter Machinery Company, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (39% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Carter Machinery Company, Inc. falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 19 Construction machinery and equ employers in Virginia.

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. (2,763 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Carter Machinery Company, Inc. has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023	0.7	0.3	20	0	0
2022	1.1	0.8	29	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · VA · Salem

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 134 employers in Salem, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	McCoy Construction & Forestry - Grand Rapids	GRAND RAPIDS, MN	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shakopee 7950	SHAKOPEE, MN	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Peterson Tractor Chico	CHICO, CA	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Columbus Equipment Company-Perrysburg Branch	PERRYSBURG, OH	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Winchester Medical Center	WINCHESTER	2,745 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - RIC2	CHESTER	2,710 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters	NORFOLK	2,853 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS	FREDERICKSBURG	2,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lewis Gale Medical Center	Salem	1,159 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia, LLC	Salem	770 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LewisGale Medical Center	Salem	690 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yokohama Tire Manufacturing VA	Salem	654 FTE
NAT-TCR	SABIC Innovative Plastics Mt. Vernon, LLC.	Mt. Vernon, IN	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nam Dae Mun Farmers Market Lilburn	Lilburn, GA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cashman Equipment Corp	Braintree, MA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Finlay Extracts & Ingredients USA, Inc. - Lincoln	Lincoln, RI	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pfizer New York	New York, NY	2,765 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Salt Lake City Terminal	Salt Lake City, UT	2,766 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tobyhanna Army Depot	Tobyhanna, PA	2,759 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4701-RRD	Frisco, TX	2,767 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.