Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Florida

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee

Tallahassee, FL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee runs at 381% 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 Tallahassee: 8.4 TCR = 381% of Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee safety composite

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 Tallahassee injury rate improved

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee's TCR fell 0.4 from 8.6 in 2023 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.6 · 2024=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 381% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #42/46
  • PHOTO Makino - Wichita
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Makino - Wichita (0.1 TCR gap)

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Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee averages 8.4 TCR (381% 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 Tallahassee TCR series: 2023=8.6 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee falls in its industry

911 Materials handling machinery a establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #42 safest of 46 Materials handling machinery a employers in Florida.

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee (25 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee
Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee (25 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Beard Equipment Company of Tallahassee 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 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2023 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · FL · Tallahassee

911 Materials handling machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 319 employers in Tallahassee, 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 Makino - Wichita 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 206 / 503 Waukesha Pearce Industries Corpus Christi 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisonburg Warehouse 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerson - Pasadena 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKenna Brothers, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanton 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE FM3 Ortiz Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC Lake City Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tallahasse Memorial HealthCare 4,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TLH2 2,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA FLORIDA CAPITAL HOSPITAL 1,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capital Regional Medical Center 1,000 FTE
NAT-TCR Builders Supply Co., Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forsa Construction LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven Manufacturing LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clackamas Rehabilitation LLC. 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spring WTG 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Fayetteville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol Duluth 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GTS Vancouver 25 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.

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

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