Shutters, door and window, metal, manufacturing · Florida

ESS Manufacturing Inc

Port Saint Lucie, FL · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ESS Manufacturing Inc runs at 510% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Shutters, door and window, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

ESS Manufacturing Inc: 16.8 TCR = 510% of Shutters, door and window, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ESS Manufacturing Inc safety composite

ESS Manufacturing Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ESS Manufacturing Inc: 10.1 → 23.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

ESS Manufacturing Inc's TCR rose 13.5 from 10.1 in 2023 to 23.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332321 · Port Saint Lucie, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 510% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO Kairos Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kairos Manufacturing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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ESS Manufacturing Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ESS Manufacturing Inc averages 16.8 TCR (510% of the Shutters, door and window, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ESS Manufacturing Inc TCR series: 2023=10.1 · 2024=23.6 · BLS 3.3

Where ESS Manufacturing Inc falls in its industry

515 Shutters, door and window, met establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Shutters, door and window, met employers in Florida.

ESS Manufacturing Inc (50 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ESS Manufacturing Inc
ESS Manufacturing Inc (50 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1

ESS Manufacturing Inc has fewer employees than the Shutters, door and window, metal, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2024 23.6 7.9 12 0 0
2023 10.1 10.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332321 · FL · Port Saint Lucie

515 Shutters, door and window, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 33 employers in Port Saint Lucie, 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 Kairos Manufacturing Inc 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IOS- Kansas City- Olathe 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Makers Bakery Equipment 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AJ Manufacturing, Inc. 413 Main Street 17.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine foods Lake City 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & M Packing LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walton Service Center 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC TRADITION HOSPITAL 1,594 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSL West 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 929 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheney Brothers - PSL 232 FTE
NAT-TCR Greater Minnesota Community Services 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nri USA, LLC - Ll 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bobalee Hydraulics 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ann Bremer Education Center 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keasbey 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Safety Corporation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE GHL International Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Danser, Inc. 50 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.