Heavy construction equipment rental without operator · Iowa

Nichols Equipment, LLC

Des Moines, IA · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Equipment, LLC runs at 326% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy construction equipment rental without operator workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Equipment, LLC: 4.6 TCR = 326% of Heavy construction equipment rental without operator BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Equipment, LLC safety composite

Nichols Equipment, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Nichols Equipment, LLC: 0.0 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2020

Nichols Equipment, LLC's TCR rose 5.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 326% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Florida Dewatering
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Florida Dewatering (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nichols Equipment, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Equipment, LLC averages 4.6 TCR (326% of the Heavy construction equipment rental without operator BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols Equipment, LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=5.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Nichols Equipment, LLC falls in its industry

270 Heavy construction equipment r establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Nichols Equipment, LLC (42 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Nichols Equipment, LLC
Nichols Equipment, LLC (42 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Nichols Equipment, LLC has more employees than the Heavy construction equipment rental with 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 5.9 3.9 3 0 0
2019 7.8 5.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · IA · Des Moines

270 Heavy construction equipment rental without operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 Florida Dewatering 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Line Equipment - Towanda 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marentco Inc dba Tejas Equipment Rentals/Sales 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 300 - MECHANICSBURG 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley West 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICF Goldfield 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-33 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Dysart SPSC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-State Lumer Corp 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas Dental Solutions 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comfort Inn - Woodstock 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE CARS Recon Inc Lexington 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioIndustries, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schreiber LLC 42 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.