Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator · Indiana

Hercules Machinery Corporation

Fort Wayne, IN · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hercules Machinery Corporation runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator workplace, earning a grade D.

Hercules Machinery Corporation: 2.4 TCR = 169% of Construction machinery and equipment rental or leasing without operator BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hercules Machinery Corporation safety composite

Hercules Machinery Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hercules Machinery Corporation: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Hercules Machinery Corporation's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Fort Wayne, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.4 · 169% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Empire Southwest LLC…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hercules Machinery Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hercules Machinery Corporation averages 2.4 TCR (169% 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

Hercules Machinery Corporation TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Hercules Machinery Corporation falls in its industry

270 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #2 safest of 4 Construction machinery and equ employers in Indiana.

Hercules Machinery Corporation (31 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Hercules Machinery Corporation
Hercules Machinery Corporation (31 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Hercules Machinery Corporation 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
2024 5.5 2.7 2 0 0
2023 8.7 5.8 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · IN · Fort Wayne

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 · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Puckett Rents Meridian 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacAllister Rental Traverse City 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Line Material Handling 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - INW 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Pullet Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whitestown, IN 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Service Center 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shambaugh & Son LP 3,072 FTE
NAT-TCR Standard/Taylor Industries, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR B&G Foods 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SBS Arizona (Tempe) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Care Center of Dequincy 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Landmark Community 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cassone Truck & Equipment Sales, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Quality Transport Company - Chesco Base 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freese Management LLC 31 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.