Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator · Indiana

Franklin Equipment - Carmel

Indianapolis, IN · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Equipment - Carmel runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator workplace, earning a grade F.

Franklin Equipment - Carmel: 5.1 TCR = 366% of Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Equipment - Carmel safety composite

Franklin Equipment - Carmel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.1

2018→2020

Franklin Equipment - Carmel injury rate improved

Franklin Equipment - Carmel's TCR fell 1.1 from 8.2 in 2018 to 7.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Indianapolis, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 366% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Best Line Equipment …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Best Line Equipment - Keyport NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Equipment - Carmel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Equipment - Carmel averages 5.1 TCR (366% of the Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Equipment - Carmel TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Franklin Equipment - Carmel falls in its industry

270 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Construction machinery and equ employers in Indiana.

Franklin Equipment - Carmel (15 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Equipment - Carmel
Franklin Equipment - Carmel (15 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Franklin Equipment - Carmel has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment ren median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2020 7.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · IN · Indianapolis

270 Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 2,074 employers in Indianapolis, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Best Line Equipment - Keyport NJ 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Equipment Company 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Total Equipment Rental, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 650 - HATBORO 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Energy of Lincoln 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 506-NiSource-Plymouth IN-Electric Sub 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 211-NiSource-Gary IN-Electric Substation 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE HTNE Hydrodemolition Services, LLC 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana University Health, Inc 7,874 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital 6,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eli Lilly - Lilly Corp Center 6,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lilly Technology Center 6,472 FTE
NAT-TCR Food Source 754-Reno 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Local Government 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kronospan LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyndhurst #50 5.1 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.