Novelties merchant wholesalers · Florida

East Coast News FL

Hallandale Beach, FL · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

East Coast News FL runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Novelties merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

East Coast News FL: 1.9 TCR = 84% of Novelties merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Coast News FL safety composite

East Coast News FL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

East Coast News FL: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

East Coast News FL's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Hallandale Beach, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 84% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #5/20
  • PHOTO Greenbriar Ag Manage…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenbriar Ag Management Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Florida employers → · Look up another →

East Coast News FL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Coast News FL averages 1.9 TCR (84% of the Novelties merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

East Coast News FL TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where East Coast News FL falls in its industry

301 Novelties merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 20 Novelties merchant wholesalers employers in Florida.

East Coast News FL (41 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate East Coast News FL
East Coast News FL (41 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

East Coast News FL has fewer employees than the Novelties merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · FL · Hallandale Beach

301 Novelties merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 21 employers in Hallandale Beach, 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 Greenbriar Ag Management Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR REDSTONE FOODS, INC. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewers Supply Group - Atlanta GA 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE CO1 Cocoa Service Center 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Odessa Transmission Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Trace 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1996 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Big Easy Casino 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1996 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 0402 213 FTE
NAT-TCR Walker Automation & Assembly (Challenge Manufacturing-Plant 3) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coyote Lake Feeders LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colgate- Hamilton, NJ 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 20180 Villa Park 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shannon Side Welding Inc dba Sheedy Fabrications 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh Solutions, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coburn Ranch 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Steel Company 41 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.