Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Costex Corporation

Miami, FL · ~439 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Costex Corporation runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Costex Corporation: 9.3 TCR = 425% of Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Costex Corporation safety composite

Costex Corporation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Costex Corporation: 7.5 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Costex Corporation's TCR rose 3.8 from 7.5 in 2021 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Miami, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 425% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Stotz Equipment - Av…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~439 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stotz Equipment - Avondale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Costex Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Costex Corporation averages 9.3 TCR (425% of the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Costex Corporation TCR series: 2021=7.5 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Costex Corporation falls in its industry

700 Tractors, farm and garden, mer establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

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 11 Tractors, farm and garden, mer employers in Florida.

Costex Corporation (439 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Costex Corporation
Costex Corporation (439 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Costex Corporation has more employees than the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 11.2 8.7 46 6 0
2021 7.5 7.2 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · FL · Miami

700 Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers 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 Stotz Equipment - Avondale 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYDENSTRICKER IMPLEMENT-PALMYRA 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Algona 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morris Store 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1220 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1390 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCO-SAUSA 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE Defense and Systems Clearwater FL 440 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 Colonial Plastics 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Electric Co Inc 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario Exteriors,Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR El Segundo Ready Mix Plant 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1126 Far1000 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE VineBrook Homes, LLC. 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dorsey Trailer, LLC 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport News Va 439 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, 2021. 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.