Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Florida

DB Sweetwater

Zolfo Springs, FL · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DB Sweetwater runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade A.

DB Sweetwater: 1.1 TCR = 26% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DB Sweetwater safety composite

DB Sweetwater scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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

−2.2

2016→2017

DB Sweetwater injury rate improved

DB Sweetwater's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Zolfo Springs, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Hearthside Foods - C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream (0.0 TCR gap)

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DB Sweetwater in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DB Sweetwater averages 1.1 TCR (26% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

DB Sweetwater TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=0 · BLS 4.1

Where DB Sweetwater falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Florida.

DB Sweetwater (57 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DB Sweetwater
DB Sweetwater (57 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

DB Sweetwater has fewer employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · FL · Zolfo Springs

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 5 employers in Zolfo Springs, 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 Hearthside Foods - Carol Stream 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Express - Streamwood 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giorgio Fresh Company / CF 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Antonio Plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quincy, FL Complex 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Hillsborough Service Area 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSC South Campus 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Orlando Operations Center 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhorn Nursery Ltd 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zolfo Springs, FL 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heart of Florida Greenhouses, Inc. 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIELDS EQUIPMENT ZOLFO 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Gruber Industries, Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Fayette Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Textron Specialized Vehicles - Dixie Chopper Coatesville 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuclear Energy : GNF-A 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and r of Jefferson City LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 5 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Charlotte PNC Amphitheate 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandy Pines Wilderness Trails, Inc 57 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: 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.