Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Washington

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent

Kent, WA · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent: 3.8 TCR = 174% of Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent safety composite

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO ValleyInd Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ValleyInd Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Turf Star, Inc. - Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Turf Star, Inc. - Kent averages 3.8 TCR (174% of the Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent TCR series: 2020=0 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Turf Star, Inc. - Kent falls in its industry

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Lawn maintenance machinery and employers in Washington.

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent (18 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Turf Star, Inc. - Kent
Turf Star, Inc. - Kent (18 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Turf Star, Inc. - Kent has fewer employees than the Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment 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 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · WA · Kent

700 Lawn maintenance machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ValleyInd Main 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawton 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swayzee Ag 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Oak FL 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Denboer Dairy 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Better Builders 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE ScoCon LLS 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acc-U-Set Construction, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR Curtis-C Roofing 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Scapes - Dallas LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bob Sumerel Tire Co Inc. Leetsdale Location 229 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Bros. Ready Mix, Ltd. 3.8 TCR

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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.