Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Kansas

White Star Machinery- Topeka

Topeka, KS · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

White Star Machinery- Topeka runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

White Star Machinery- Topeka: 4.7 TCR = 212% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

White Star Machinery- Topeka safety composite

White Star Machinery- Topeka scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−3.3

2016→2018

White Star Machinery- Topeka injury rate improved

White Star Machinery- Topeka's TCR fell 3.3 from 8.7 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.7 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 212% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Welsh Equipment, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welsh Equipment, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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White Star Machinery- Topeka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows White Star Machinery- Topeka averages 4.7 TCR (212% 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

White Star Machinery- Topeka TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 2.2

Where White Star Machinery- Topeka falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Construction machinery and equ employers in Kansas.

White Star Machinery- Topeka (21 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 White Star Machinery- Topeka
White Star Machinery- Topeka (21 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

White Star Machinery- Topeka has fewer 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
2018 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · KS · Topeka

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 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 Welsh Equipment, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 02008-02-02-PASCO 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy Equipment Corp. dba Synergy Rents 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bobcat of Indy - Anderson 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 101-107, 127 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hills Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Rush Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordon Evans Energy Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Country Inn & Suites Tinley Park 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hagerstown (Mdwil) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baldwin Electric Membership Corp 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Burlington 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wood Creek Apartments 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE RHS 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE RNE 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE ROG 21 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.