Gypsum Product Manufacturing · Florida

Palatka Plant

Palatka, FL · ~129 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palatka Plant runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gypsum Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Palatka Plant: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Gypsum Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palatka Plant safety composite

Palatka Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Palatka Plant: 1.5 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Palatka Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Palatka, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO NGC - Waukegan Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NGC - Waukegan Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palatka Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palatka Plant averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Gypsum Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Palatka Plant TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Palatka Plant falls in its industry

123 Gypsum Product Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Gypsum Product Manufacturing employers in Florida.

Palatka Plant (129 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Palatka Plant
Palatka Plant (129 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Palatka Plant has more employees than the Gypsum Product Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 2.8 0.0 2 2 0
2019 5.5 3.7 4 2 0
2018 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · FL · Palatka

123 Gypsum Product Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 59 employers in Palatka, 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 NGC - Waukegan Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR USG Corporation Chicago Construction 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Gypsum Sigurd 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed Gypsum Manufacturing Inc Carrollton Kentucky 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1697 Rucks Dairy Road 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fernlea Nurseries - MIA 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Equix Energy Services, LLC - Midway 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Refrigeration Air Orlando 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR FL180 Palatka Paper 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR PALATKA CENTER FOR REHAB & HEALING 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR HH-PALATHME 560 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Main 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dimension Fabricators, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bally'S Atlantic City Hotel and Casino 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford Public Schools - Clark Lane Middle School 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE McDonough 6 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE The MonteVista at Coronado 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE NE On Highway 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 93 - Manufacturing 3 129 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, 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.