Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · North Dakota

Swanston Equipment Corporation

Fargo, ND · ~57 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swanston Equipment Corporation runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Swanston Equipment Corporation: 4.6 TCR = 207% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swanston Equipment Corporation safety composite

Swanston Equipment Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Swanston Equipment Corporation: 4.5 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

Swanston Equipment Corporation's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.5 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 207% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Manassas
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manassas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swanston Equipment Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swanston Equipment Corporation averages 4.6 TCR (207% 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

Swanston Equipment Corporation TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=9 · 2018=4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Swanston Equipment Corporation falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Construction machinery and equ employers in North Dakota.

Swanston Equipment Corporation (57 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Swanston Equipment Corporation
Swanston Equipment Corporation (57 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Swanston Equipment Corporation has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a higher 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 7.3 4.8 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 9.0 7.7 6 1 0
2016 4.5 4.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · ND · Fargo

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 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 Manassas 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hankinson Store 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterson Machinery Portland East 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BMC-Grand Forks 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Enclave Construction 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denny's Electric, LLC. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horace Shop 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Grand Forks 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR Regency Technologies - Brooksville 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1400 Jamesville Ave 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MPR Logistics LLC (Albuquerque) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Milford Library 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PBV-Statesville 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDaniel and Son Plumbing, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jimbo's Naturally Escondido 57 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, 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.