Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Ohio

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc

North Star, OH · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc: 0.7 TCR = 32% of Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc safety composite

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc held a steady TCR band

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · North Star, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/48
  • PHOTO Athens GA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Athens GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc averages 0.7 TCR (32% of the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc falls in its industry

700 Farm machinery and equipment m establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 48 Farm machinery and equipment m employers in Ohio.

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc (32 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc
North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc (32 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

North Star Hardware & Implement Co Inc has more employees than the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wh median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · OH · North Star

700 Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 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 Athens GA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buck-Hampshire 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jerseyville, IL 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt Airy 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Custom Agri Systems - Upper Sandusky 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tiffin Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delaware Svc Ctr 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Electric, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Linde, Inc Memphis TN 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bullet Line, LLC. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Network Facility Management 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR M.A. Silva Corks USA LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Onken's Inc - Easton 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn- Roseville 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titus Contracting Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boys & Girls Club - Thrift Store 32 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. 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.