Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers · Florida

Kellstrom Defense

Miramar, FL · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kellstrom Defense runs at 309% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kellstrom Defense: 6.8 TCR = 309% of Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kellstrom Defense safety composite

Kellstrom Defense scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Kellstrom Defense: 1.1 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.84× in 2018

Kellstrom Defense's TCR rose 11.4 from 1.1 in 2017 to 12.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423860 · Miramar, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 309% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO J&L Contracting, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J&L Contracting, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kellstrom Defense in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kellstrom Defense averages 6.8 TCR (309% of the Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kellstrom Defense TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=12.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Kellstrom Defense falls in its industry

107 Aircraft equipment and supplie establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Aircraft equipment and supplie employers in Florida.

Kellstrom Defense (47 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kellstrom Defense
Kellstrom Defense (47 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Kellstrom Defense has fewer employees than the Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant 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
2018 12.5 12.5 1 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423860 · FL · Miramar

107 Aircraft equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 139 employers in Miramar, 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 J&L Contracting, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grapevine 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMI 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jet Midwest 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Bees Florida 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Encino Harvesting, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE PLANT MARKETING LLC FLORIDA 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Myers Service Center 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Airlines - HDQ 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIRAMAR 2501 SW 145th Ave 970 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Headquarters (HDQ) 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10928 840 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Ethanol Columbia, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Smoky Mountains - Resort 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR iFLY Lincoln Park 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beech Construction 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Care Hospice of Athens 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graber & Graber Contractors Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6 Eastmans Rd 47 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.