Cigar manufacturing · Florida

J.C. Newman Cigar Company

Tampa, FL · ~150 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.C. Newman Cigar Company runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cigar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

J.C. Newman Cigar Company: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Cigar manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.C. Newman Cigar Company safety composite

J.C. Newman Cigar Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

J.C. Newman Cigar Company: 0.8 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

J.C. Newman Cigar Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.8 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Tampa, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Swisher International
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swisher International (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.C. Newman Cigar Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.C. Newman Cigar Company averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Cigar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

J.C. Newman Cigar Company TCR series: 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where J.C. Newman Cigar Company falls in its industry

53 Cigar manufacturing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
J.C. Newman Cigar Company (150 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate J.C. Newman Cigar Company
J.C. Newman Cigar Company (150 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

J.C. Newman Cigar Company has fewer employees than the Cigar manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2023 1.8 0.6 1 2 0
2022 2.0 2.0 3 0 0
2021 4.8 3.4 7 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 4 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · FL · Tampa

53 Cigar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,659 employers in Tampa, 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 Swisher International 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohserase Manufacturing 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASC Taylor Brothers 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nations Roof Sunshine State LLC 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beaumont Electric Company 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mike Scott Plumbing, Inc. Hernando Location 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Refresco Tampa Plant 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC 10,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tampa General Hospital 7,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valet Living, LLC 6,337 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. Joseph's Hospital (5100) 5,540 FTE
NAT-TCR Amcor Flexibles LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Guardian Fabrication LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stock Yards Phoenix 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CM3 Building Solutions 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dublin, OH 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yardley 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kyowe - Owensboro 150 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.