Employer · Florida

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL

Clearwater, FL · ~440 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL: 0.6 TCR = 19% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL safety composite

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL held a steady TCR band

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.6 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334511 · Clearwater, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/38
  • PHOTO Smiths Detection Edg…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~440 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smiths Detection Edgewood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Defense and Systems Clearwater FL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Defense and Systems Clearwater FL averages 0.6 TCR (19% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL TCR series: 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Defense and Systems Clearwater FL falls in its industry

388 industry establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 38 industry employers in Florida.

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL (440 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Defense and Systems Clearwater FL
Defense and Systems Clearwater FL (440 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 207 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Defense and Systems Clearwater FL has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.6 0.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334511 · FL · Clearwater

388 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 548 employers in Clearwater, 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 Smiths Detection Edgewood 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Space and Airborne Systems : CO, Broomfield - 385 Interlocken Cres. (SAS-SSG) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockwell Collins (Bellevue IA) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palm Bay FL 2400 Palm Bay Rd 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1541 440 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2946 440 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freedom Village Bradenton - 71280 440 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hard Rock Hotel 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Plant Hospital (2100) 3,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR BayCare Health System (0020) 3,171 FTE
CITY-NEAR TD SYNNEX Clearwater 2,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Resale Shoppe Countryside 2,476 FTE
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-St. Louis 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SSA Administration Headquarters 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR C&C Contractors LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Murray Charlotte 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andrews Distributing Company - Allen 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Cleveland 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lpr Construction 440 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Region Medical, Inc. 440 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. 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.