Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Florida

Dixie Southern

Duette, FL · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dixie Southern runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dixie Southern: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dixie Southern safety composite

Dixie Southern scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Dixie Southern: 4.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Dixie Southern's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.0 in 2018 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Duette, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Contract Industrial …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Contract Industrial Tooling - #1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dixie Southern in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dixie Southern averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dixie Southern TCR series: 2018=4 · 2021=7.7 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Dixie Southern falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Florida.

Dixie Southern (39 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dixie Southern
Dixie Southern (39 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Dixie Southern has fewer employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2023 12.8 5.1 4 1 0
2021 7.7 5.1 3 0 0
2018 4.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · FL · Duette

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 4 employers in Duette, 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 Contract Industrial Tooling - #1 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrison Industries 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Argo Industries Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Laser 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Immokalee Research Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&M Warehouse & Packing of North Florida LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Farms Corporation 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DY4 Ormond Beach Service Center 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&D Farms Inc 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moody Contruction Services, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moody Construction Services, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Indus School 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Loudon Industries, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest MS Complex 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR M-8 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NJ VNA Ocean County 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beck & Hofer Construction 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALLY Construction Services 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry H. Ross & Son, Inc 39 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, 2021, 2018. 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.