Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Florida

Essential Ford of Stuart

Stuart, FL · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essential Ford of Stuart runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade A.

Essential Ford of Stuart: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essential Ford of Stuart safety composite

Essential Ford of Stuart scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2022→2024

Essential Ford of Stuart injury rate improved

Essential Ford of Stuart's TCR fell 1.4 from 1.4 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Stuart, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/254
  • PHOTO TLG-Florence
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TLG-Florence (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essential Ford of Stuart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essential Ford of Stuart averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Essential Ford of Stuart TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Essential Ford of Stuart falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 254 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Florida.

Essential Ford of Stuart (74 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Essential Ford of Stuart
Essential Ford of Stuart (74 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essential Ford of Stuart has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · FL · Stuart

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 138 employers in Stuart, 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 TLG-Florence 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen Samuels of Jackson, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR family hyundai, inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feldman CDJR of Clarkston 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Richard Hagstrom Ferneries 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perrine Svc Cntr & Str 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florida Distribution Control Center 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE PC1 Panama City Administration Line Service Center 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2160 SE Ocean Blvd Bldg. 2 (Thrift Shop) (TCH5) 4,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Memorial Health Systems Inc 4,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC MARTIN HEALTH 1,836 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuCO2, LLC 1,136 FTE
NAT-TCR S07495 - Sumter Hauling 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde Claremore 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Integra-Biosciences Friars 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Astronautics Corporation of America 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hermitage Health Center 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doan Building 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Farms 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAK USA Inc 74 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, 2022. 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.