Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Florida

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.

Lakeland, FL · ~212 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. safety composite

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2023

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. injury rate improved

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 4.9 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.9 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #18/31
  • PHOTO bridgford foods corp…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~212 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: bridgford foods corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 31 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Florida.

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. (212 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc.
Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. (212 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Flowers Baking Co. of Lakeland, Inc. has more employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 4.5 0.9 9 1 0
2022 4.6 3.2 10 0 0
2021 6.3 3.9 10 3 0
2020 5.6 2.3 11 1 0
2019 4.6 3.0 11 0 0
2018 4.3 2.6 9 1 0
2017 4.9 0.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · FL · Lakeland

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, 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 bridgford foods corporation 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson Street Bakery 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DUNFORD BAKERS, INC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 80610-BAKERY-CC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE G&D Farms Inc 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpha Foliage, Inc 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE FHS / Mazzella Hoist & Crane Service 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raney Components, LLC 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR Sure Power, Inc. - Ridley Park 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carris Health-Willmar Skylark Clinic 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glad-A-Way Gardens, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CTI Construction 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Danfoss 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applewood Estates 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holden Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Meyers Printing 212 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.