Discount Department Stores · Florida

1299 - Lakeland South

Lakeland, FL · ~183 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1299 - Lakeland South runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1299 - Lakeland South: 10.0 TCR = 294% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1299 - Lakeland South safety composite

1299 - Lakeland South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

1299 - Lakeland South: 4.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

1299 - Lakeland South's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.0 in 2019 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 294% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #351/385
  • PHOTO 0373 - Smyrna
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0373 - Smyrna (0.0 TCR gap)

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1299 - Lakeland South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1299 - Lakeland South averages 10.0 TCR (294% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1299 - Lakeland South TCR series: 2019=4 · 2021=21.4 · 2022=16 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1299 - Lakeland South falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #351 safest of 385 Discount Department Stores employers in Florida.

1299 - Lakeland South (183 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1299 - Lakeland South
1299 - Lakeland South (183 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1299 - Lakeland South has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 5.1 5.1 6 0 0
2023 3.4 2.5 3 1 0
2022 16.0 14.4 5 15 0
2021 21.4 17.3 13 13 0
2019 4.0 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · FL · Lakeland

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, 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 0373 - Smyrna 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2310 - Easton 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0808 - Fond du Lac 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 469 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Detasseling, LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sandvik Alachua 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Sweets, Inc. PLANT CITY, FL 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2421 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR 0373 - Smyrna 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2310 - Easton 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellis Steel Company, Inc. Structural 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1283 - Murrieta 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1326 - Castle Rock 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1241 - O'Fallon 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1526 - Manteca 183 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, 2021, 2019. 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.