Home Centers · Florida

8531 Palatka

Palatka, FL · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

8531 Palatka runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade D.

8531 Palatka: 5.9 TCR = 174% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

8531 Palatka safety composite

8531 Palatka scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

8531 Palatka: 4.8 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

8531 Palatka's TCR rose 3.1 from 4.8 in 2022 to 7.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Palatka, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 174% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #298/421
  • PHOTO Bender Lumber - Bloo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bender Lumber - Bloomington (0.0 TCR gap)

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8531 Palatka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 8531 Palatka averages 5.9 TCR (174% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

8531 Palatka TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 8531 Palatka falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #298 safest of 421 Home Centers employers in Florida.

8531 Palatka (74 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 8531 Palatka
8531 Palatka (74 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

8531 Palatka has fewer employees than the Home Centers median and a higher 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 7.9 6.6 6 0 0
2023 5.1 3.8 4 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · FL · Palatka

6,309 Home Centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 59 employers in Palatka, 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 Bender Lumber - Bloomington 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARION IL - 3219 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'FALLON IL - 3306 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6320 E PALM BEACH LAKES 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richard Hagstrom Ferneries 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perrine Svc Cntr & Str 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florida Distribution Control Center 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE PC1 Panama City Administration Line Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR FL180 Palatka Paper 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATKA CENTER FOR REHAB & HEALING 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR HH-PALATHME 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 413 FTE
NAT-TCR 6940 Powder Springs 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3405 North Hampton 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CSU-MB Dining Commons 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Los Angeles Airport 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8571 Lincoln 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8431 Round Lake Beach 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8966 Moses Lake 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8981 Chardon 74 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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