Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Florida

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City

Panama City, FL · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City runs at 261% 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 Panama City: 5.8 TCR = 261% of Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City safety composite

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City: 2.8 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City's TCR rose 5.8 from 2.8 in 2023 to 8.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Panama City, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 261% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #38/46
  • PHOTO New Britain
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Britain (0.0 TCR gap)

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Beard Equipment Company of Panama City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beard Equipment Company of Panama City averages 5.8 TCR (261% 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 Panama City TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Beard Equipment Company of Panama City falls in its industry

911 Materials handling machinery a establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #38 safest of 46 Materials handling machinery a employers in Florida.

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City (35 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Panama City
Beard Equipment Company of Panama City (35 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Beard Equipment Company of Panama City has fewer 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 8.7 5.8 3 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · FL · Panama City

911 Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 180 employers in Panama City, 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 New Britain 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4952_11439 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Rubber & Gasket 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hause Machines 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ladybug Farms Inc 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying W Cattle Company 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridge 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Island Service Center 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Shipbuilding Group Nelson 1,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Lynn Haven, FL-USA 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLPEN89 ASCENSION SACRED HEART BAY HOSP 893 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center 879 FTE
NAT-TCR Oakhaven Nursing Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Abington Memorial Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R C Bowman Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Duncan Aviation 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Symphony at Centerville 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Douglas 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stor-Mor Systems, Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel. St. Francis 35 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.