Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing · Florida

Florida's Natural Lake Wales

Lake Wales, FL · ~640 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Florida's Natural Lake Wales runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Florida's Natural Lake Wales: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Florida's Natural Lake Wales safety composite

Florida's Natural Lake Wales scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Florida's Natural Lake Wales held a steady TCR band

Florida's Natural Lake Wales's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Lake Wales, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #5/18
  • PHOTO Pasco RDO Plant
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 136 inj
  • SIZE ~640 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pasco RDO Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Florida's Natural Lake Wales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Florida's Natural Lake Wales averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Florida's Natural Lake Wales TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Florida's Natural Lake Wales falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 18 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a employers in Florida.

Florida's Natural Lake Wales (640 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Florida's Natural Lake Wales
Florida's Natural Lake Wales (640 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Florida's Natural Lake Wales has more employees than the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetab median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 2.5 1.4 14 4 0
2022 1.4 1.3 10 1 0
2021 2.2 1.3 18 1 0
2020 2.2 1.1 21 0 0
2019 2.0 1.2 17 1 0
2018 2.8 1.9 22 0 0
2017 2.5 2.0 17 3 0
2016 2.3 1.1 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · FL · Lake Wales

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 66 employers in Lake Wales, 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 Pasco RDO Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Coastal Tipton Division 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCains Food Plant#2 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FG Plant - Pasco 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florida Hospital North Pinellas 640 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical One LLC 639 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEL USA, LLC 641 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buccaneers Team LLC 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakley Transport 821 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Lake Wales 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 859 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR 859 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Bolton - Store 1 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bergey's Chevrolet of Colmar 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AmeriTex Pipe and Products LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #248 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Manhattan 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glencoe 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Mile Square 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axonics 640 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.