Homecenter · Florida

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl

Fort Walton Beach, FL · ~174 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade D.

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl: 4.5 TCR = 133% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl safety composite

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl: 2.3 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl's TCR rose 4.5 from 2.3 in 2023 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Fort Walton Beach, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #192/421
  • PHOTO Alamo Lumber Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alamo Lumber Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl averages 4.5 TCR (133% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #192 safest of 421 Homecenter employers in Florida.

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl (174 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl
0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl (174 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

0479 Lowe S of Ft Walton Beach Fl has more employees than the Homecenter median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.8 5.1 8 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · FL · Fort Walton Beach

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 63 employers in Fort Walton Beach, FL · 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 Alamo Lumber Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPERVILLE IL - 3505 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1545 STERLING 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1944 VOLO 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE EnerSys Advanced Systems, Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top Cut Lawn Services 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6189 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2241 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital 1,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Walton Beach Medical Center 918 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 919 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR 919 417 FTE
NAT-TCR Kohlfeld Distributing, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Aloft Minneapolis 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Place 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ksger - Edgerton Hub 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 300000294349579 - UT-SLC-Operating Center 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mora High School 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mastercraft Inc 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0603 174 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. 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.