Avocado farming · Florida

Brooks Tropicals, LLC

Homestead, FL · ~142 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brooks Tropicals, LLC runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Avocado farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Brooks Tropicals, LLC: 11.6 TCR = 257% of Avocado farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brooks Tropicals, LLC safety composite

Brooks Tropicals, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.1

2016→2024

Brooks Tropicals, LLC injury rate improved

Brooks Tropicals, LLC's TCR fell 4.1 from 16.6 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.6 · 2017=15.4 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=12.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111339 · Homestead, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 257% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO New Excelsior Farmin…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Excelsior Farming, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Brooks Tropicals, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brooks Tropicals, LLC averages 11.6 TCR (257% of the Avocado farming BLS benchmark).

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

Brooks Tropicals, LLC TCR series: 2016=16.6 · 2017=15.4 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Brooks Tropicals, LLC falls in its industry

90 Avocado farming establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Brooks Tropicals, LLC (142 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Brooks Tropicals, LLC
Brooks Tropicals, LLC (142 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Brooks Tropicals, LLC has more employees than the Avocado farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 12.4 12.4 11 3 0
2023 4.3 1.7 1 4 0
2022 10.1 10.1 6 6 0
2021 16.3 15.5 19 1 0
2020 5.7 4.3 7 1 0
2019 13.1 10.5 14 6 0
2018 10.2 8.3 13 3 0
2017 15.4 9.2 25 0 0
2016 16.6 13.4 24 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111339 · FL · Homestead

90 Avocado farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 85 employers in Homestead, 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 Excelsior Farming, LLC 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkdale 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TLC Orchards LLC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry Blossom Orchard, LLC 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 8692_20096 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Roofing and Sheet Metal 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIRST QUALITY PLUMBING 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Mechanical Services, Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homestead Baptist Health 1,519 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homestead Hospital 1,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nextera PTN Turkey Point 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5671 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Charlottesville 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LSB - Halsted St 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR T&L Specialty Co 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crawfordsville LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fujifilm Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #149 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building B 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Primex Plastics Mesquite 142 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.