• A report from the National Equipment Register and the National Insurance Crime Bureau says that 11,075 pieces of heavy equipment – construction and farm and including riding mowers – were reported stolen in the U.S. last year.
• Five states – Texas, North Carolina, Florida, California and Georgia accounted for 40% of the reported thefts. About half of thefts occurred when the equipment was somewhere other than the owner's premises or being hauled to or from a job site.
• About 21% of stolen equipment was recovered last year, the report states.

From the report:

The National Equipment Register (NER), a division of Verisk Crime Analytics, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has released their national report on 2011 heavy-equipment theft. ...