Machine shops · Texas

Starke Machine Company

Fort Worth, TX · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Starke Machine Company runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Starke Machine Company: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Starke Machine Company safety composite

Starke Machine Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2021→2024

Starke Machine Company injury rate improved

Starke Machine Company's TCR fell 4.8 from 6.7 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.7 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Fort Worth, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #77/108
  • PHOTO Vico Products, Co.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vico Products, Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Starke Machine Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Starke Machine Company averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Starke Machine Company TCR series: 2021=6.7 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Starke Machine Company falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 108 Machine shops employers in Texas.

Starke Machine Company (40 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Starke Machine Company
Starke Machine Company (40 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Starke Machine Company has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 6.7 4.5 3 0 0
2021 6.7 3.4 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · TX · Fort Worth

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,346 employers in Fort Worth, TX · 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 Vico Products, Co. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trison Tool and Machine, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decimal Engineering 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astro Machine Works, Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE RCB Ventures, LLC dba Tri-Tex Grass 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Canyon Ranch 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Feedyard 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kurten Location 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Fort Worth Campus (1093) 13,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Children's Medical Center 4,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX- Fort Worth 4,667 FTE
NAT-TCR D&D Commodities Ltd. - Stephen 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marcy Houses 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Mary's Park 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Nicholas Houses 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri-State Asphalt LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornella Brothers, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104614 - MECT - VMR South Central LRT 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Insulation, Inc. 40 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.