Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing · Florida

Costa Color, LLC

Miami, FL · ~584 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Costa Color, LLC runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Costa Color, LLC: 4.3 TCR = 95% of Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Costa Color, LLC safety composite

Costa Color, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Costa Color, LLC: 2.6 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2018

Costa Color, LLC's TCR rose 3.2 from 2.6 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Miami, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 95% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Hoover Gardens & Gifts
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~584 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoover Gardens & Gifts (0.0 TCR gap)

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Costa Color, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Costa Color, LLC averages 4.3 TCR (95% of the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing BLS benchmark).

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

Costa Color, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Costa Color, LLC falls in its industry

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Plug (i.e., floriculture produ employers in Florida.

Costa Color, LLC (584 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Costa Color, LLC
Costa Color, LLC (584 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Costa Color, LLC has more employees than the Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2018 5.9 5.7 26 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · FL · Miami

166 Plug (i.e., floriculture products) growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,467 employers in Miami, 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 Hoover Gardens & Gifts 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (IN) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR W J Griffin, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuster's Greenhouse 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE D&K Harvesting, Inc 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Marketing Concepts, Inc. 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE FL Army National Guard 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAE USA Inc. 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-MIA-MIAMI-MIA-TRML 9,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc. 6,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIACX0UPS MIA UPS 3,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Miami 2,879 FTE
NAT-TCR Rescar - Loc#240 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cobham RAD 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Normal 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Olive Branch 1 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE KM Plant Services, Inc. 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendora Regional Office 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Mary Medical Center 584 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: 2018, 2017. 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.