Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Florida

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala

Ocala, FL · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala: 6.6 TCR = 299% of Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala safety composite

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.4

2023→2024

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala injury rate improved

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.8 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.8 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Ocala, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 299% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #40/46
  • PHOTO Branch 31
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 31 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Beard Equipment Company of Ocala in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beard Equipment Company of Ocala averages 6.6 TCR (299% of the Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala TCR series: 2023=6.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Beard Equipment Company of Ocala falls in its industry

911 Materials handling machinery a establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 46 Materials handling machinery a employers in Florida.

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala (61 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Beard Equipment Company of Ocala
Beard Equipment Company of Ocala (61 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Beard Equipment Company of Ocala has more employees than the Materials handling machinery and equipme median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2023 6.8 5.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · FL · Ocala

911 Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 391 employers in Ocala, 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 Branch 31 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Louis 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gosiger Machine Tools, LLC Northwest 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Company 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Svc Cntr & S 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocala Operations 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE KB Home - Tampa Division Office 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health Ocala 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 2,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Ocala 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocala Regional Medical Center 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Everett 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stebnitz Builders Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton San Antonio Hill Country 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Applied Membranes, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bay Minette 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Services OWS Cincinnati 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filtertech 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Forming LLC 61 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.