Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers · New York

Koester Associates, Inc.

Canastota, NY · ~38 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koester Associates, Inc. runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Koester Associates, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 116% of Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koester Associates, Inc. safety composite

Koester Associates, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2023

Koester Associates, Inc. injury rate improved

Koester Associates, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 5.3 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Canastota, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 116% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO Angelo Water Service
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Angelo Water Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koester Associates, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koester Associates, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (116% of the Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Koester Associates, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Koester Associates, Inc. falls in its industry

911 Industrial machinery and equip establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Industrial machinery and equip employers in New York.

Koester Associates, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Koester Associates, Inc.
Koester Associates, Inc. (38 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Koester Associates, Inc. has fewer employees than the Industrial machinery and equipment (exce median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.9 4.9 2 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.1 2.5 2 0 0
2016 5.3 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · NY · Canastota

911 Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 19 employers in Canastota, NY · 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 Angelo Water Service 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warrior Tractor - Huntsville 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymond Storage Concepts - Columbus 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06019-06-06-CONCORD 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spruce Haven Farm, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora-Oakwood Dairy, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eldred Brothers / Main Farm 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanehan Family Dairy, LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Servomation Refreshments, Inc. 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dutchland Plastics LLC 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canastota Facility 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abscope Environmental Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Regency Management, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Perennial Energy, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Doral Hyundai 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Barringer Construction- Raleigh 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vista Balboa 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Services Enterprises 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliant Metro Carbonation 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trego/Dugan Aviation, Inc Ind 38 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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