Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Florida

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach

Fort Walton Beach, FL · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach safety composite

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach: 2.9 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2022

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.9 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Fort Walton Beach, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #201/254
  • PHOTO Hill International T…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hill International Trucks WWV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=2.3 · 2019=3 · 2020=12.8 · 2022=4 · BLS 3.4

Where Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #201 safest of 254 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Florida.

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach (32 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach
Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach (32 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Mercedes Benz of Fort Walton Beach has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 12.8 12.8 3 1 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · FL · Fort Walton Beach

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 63 employers in Fort Walton 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 Hill International Trucks WWV 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blaise Alexander Altoona Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CarMax #4001 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griffin Management Company 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hunt Bros Service 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tamiami Citrus, LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Osprey Energy Center 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midulla Generating Station 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital 1,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Walton Beach Medical Center 918 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 919 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR 919 417 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodcrest Nursing and Rehabilitation 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta (breakbulk only) 141 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HG592 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR IEDS National Hostling LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Health and Rehab 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garnet Place 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace-Atlas Corp. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo Place 32 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.