Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids: 1.9 TCR = 89% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids safety composite

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids: 3.2 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.12× in 2024

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.2 in 2019 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO BEI Mt. Orab Branch
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEI Mt. Orab Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids averages 1.9 TCR (89% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids TCR series: 2019=3.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Construction machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids (33 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids
Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids (33 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Star Equipment Ltd - Cedar Rapids has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · IA · Cedar Rapids

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, 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 BEI Mt. Orab Branch 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Augustine RPC and Corporate Office 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winchester 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bobcat of Atlanta - Marietta 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR Neway Packaging Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Rooster Coffee Roaster 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Grasmere Place LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gallagher and Burk 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Broccolo Tree and Lawn Care 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Drilling Company, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Hallie 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack Hilliard Distributing Co, Inc - Houston 33 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.