Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing · Florida

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach

Vero Beach, FL · ~47 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach safety composite

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−0.6

2020→2024

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach injury rate improved

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.5 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333515 · Vero Beach, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO MASTERCUT TOOL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MASTERCUT TOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

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M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach falls in its industry

221 Blanks, cutting tool, manufact establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Blanks, cutting tool, manufact employers in Florida.

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach (47 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach
M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach (47 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5

M.A. Ford Mfg Co Inc. Vero Beach has fewer employees than the Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333515 · FL · Vero Beach

221 Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 148 employers in Vero Beach, 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 MASTERCUT TOOL 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rite-Way Industries, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costa Mesa Facility 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Technology Innovations 1.7 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 CC INDIAN RIVER 2,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian River Memorial Hospital Inc 2,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piper Aircraft 1,017 FTE
NAT-TCR All Things BBQ 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalamazoo/Battle Creek Airport 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #610 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Management GTHI Seven Hills Senior Living 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6301 Lubbock Hesselbein Tire of Okla Inc #64 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Highway (A Simplex Company) 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.