Medical equipment merchant wholesalers · New York

Equashield

Name: Equashield Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Port Washington, NY · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.2
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Equashield runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Medical equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Equashield: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Medical equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equashield safety composite

Equashield scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Equashield held a steady TCR band

Equashield's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.5 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Port Washington, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #10/32
PHOTO HESC
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HESC (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.2
HESC

1.2
Animal Health

1.2
079J - FORT WO

1.2
079H - RALEIGH

1.2

What this shows Equashield averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Medical equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Equashield TCR series: 2020=1.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Equashield falls in its industry

754 Medical equipment merchant who establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 32 Medical equipment merchant who employers in New York.

Equashield (65 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Equashield has more employees than the Medical equipment merchant wholesalers 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
2023	1.8	0.0	1	0
2022	1.6	1.6	1	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	1.5	1.5	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · NY · Port Washington

754 Medical equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 39 employers in Port Washington, NY · 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	HESC	ESCONDIDO, CA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Animal Health International, Inc.	GREELEY, CO	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	079J - FORT WORTH TX FAS	GRAND PRAIRIE, TX	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	079H - RALEIGH NC FAS	GARNER, NC	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pearl Creek Management, Inc.	WYOMING	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	John B Martin & Sons Farms, Inc	BROCKPORT	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Merrell Dairy, LLC	WOLCOTT	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NYSEG Hornell	HORNELL	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The NPD Group, Inc.	Port Washington	549 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LIF PORT WASHINGTON	Port Washington	369 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Systemax/Global Industrial - Port Washington - NY	Port Washington	285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PW- Medical Depot, Inc.	Port Washington	262 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wapakoneta, OH	Wapakoneta, OH	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oxford	Oxford, AL	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	ERI Aurora, CO	Aurora, CO	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	AZZ Galvanizing - Arizona	Goodyear, AR	1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Western Container Corporation - Houston	Houston, TX	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Letterkenny (Business Services)	Chambersburg, PA	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Argentine	Kansas City, KS	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Theisen's of Cedar Rapids SW	Cedar Rapids, IA	65 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, 2021, 2020. 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.