Employer · Florida

Lake Wales Medical Center

Lake Wales, FL · ~228 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Wales Medical Center runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Lake Wales Medical Center: 8.9 TCR = 197% of industry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Wales Medical Center safety composite

Lake Wales Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−19.9

2016→2020

Lake Wales Medical Center injury rate improved

Lake Wales Medical Center's TCR fell 19.9 from 19.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.9 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Lake Wales, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #258/292
  • PHOTO Plaza at West Covina
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 129 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plaza at West Covina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Wales Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Wales Medical Center averages 8.9 TCR (197% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Wales Medical Center TCR series: 2016=19.9 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=5 · 2020=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Lake Wales Medical Center falls in its industry

4,064 industry establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #258 safest of 292 industry employers in Florida.

Lake Wales Medical Center (228 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Wales Medical Center
Lake Wales Medical Center (228 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Lake Wales Medical Center has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.9 3.5 29 0 0
2017 11.6 4.0 39 5 0
2016 19.9 2.6 60 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · FL · Lake Wales

4,064 industry 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 Plaza at West Covina 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSSI - 0419 Dold Foods LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABG-Greenbelt 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 658 Oakwood (WI) 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edgewell Personal Care 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Southeast, LLC 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE DI - INL Patrick AFB Support Division 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SFL1 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakley Transport 821 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida's Natural Lake Wales 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Lake Wales 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 859 355 FTE
NAT-TCR Hadco Metal Trading Headquarters 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric Machinery Company LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Products Services Inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SMG/INTRUST Bank Arena 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE AJB 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Co 14 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE thyssenkrupp Materials NA - Corporate Southfield 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inogen, Inc. 3 228 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.