Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland

Lakeland, FL · ~227 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland: 4.5 TCR = 206% of Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland safety composite

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.5

2022→2024

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland injury rate improved

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland's TCR fell 2.5 from 7.2 in 2022 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 206% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Reisinger Poultry Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reisinger Poultry Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland averages 4.5 TCR (206% of the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland falls in its industry

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesa employers in Florida.

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland (227 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland
Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland (227 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland has more employees than the Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 4.7 4.7 10 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 4 0 0
2022 7.2 3.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · FL · Lakeland

162 Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, 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 Reisinger Poultry Inc 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Box Beef - Dallas 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PC North 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7031 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE US074: Miami 263 - SG 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE RJKielty Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, Inc 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quietflex Manufacturing Company, L.P.-FL 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Origin Florida, LLC 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR Peterbilt of Indiana, Inc. - Indianapolis 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtland Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 045m - Duluth Mn Rntl 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big R of Liberal, LLC. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Terraces at Summit View 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagan High School 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Langlas & Associates 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ronpak, Inc. New Jersey 227 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.