Armor plate made in iron and steel mills · Florida
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc.
Lake City, FL · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Armor plate made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade D.
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. safety composite
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).
24/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 5.6 per 100 workers
Safer than 24% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 7.74 per 100 workers
Safer than 4% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc.: 3.5 → 7.7 TCR
Peak year 2018 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2018
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 3.5 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 331110 · Lake City, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind
- DART 7.7 DART
- RANK #6/7
- PHOTO Reading
- BOOK 2y book
- INJ 3 inj
- SIZE ~25 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Reading (0.0 TCR gap)
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Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Bull Moose Tub
Bull Moose Tube Company Chicago Division
5.7 TCR
- Ferrous Metal
Ferrous Metal Processing
5.7 TCR
- This site
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc.
5.6 TCR
- Reading
Reading
5.6 TCR
- Meyer
Meyer
5.5 TCR
What this shows Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=7.7 · BLS 3.3
Where Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. falls in its industry
416 Armor plate made in iron and s establishmentsSafer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.
Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Armor plate made in iron and s employers in Florida.
Quality Fabrication & Machine Works, Inc. has fewer employees than the Armor plate made in iron and steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
331110 · FL · Lake City
416 Armor plate made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 115 employers in Lake City, 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 | Reading | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Meyer | 5.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Bull Moose Tube Company Chicago Division | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Ferrous Metal Processing | 5.7 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | McKenna Brothers, Inc | 25 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Stanton | 25 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | FM3 Ortiz Service Center | 25 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | LC Lake City Office | 25 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. | 1,084 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | HCA Florida Lake City Hospital | 663 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | HAECO Airframe Services - Lake City | 605 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | HAECO Americas - LCQ | 562 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Chief Buildings Rensselaer | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | NorthChase Nursing & Rehab | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Irving, Texas Container Graphics Corporation | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Grid Solutions : CS NAM - North America Services (US Only) | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Penn Pallet Inc - Woodland | 25 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Distribution - San Antonio TX | 25 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Louisville Algo Terminal | 25 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Wingate Apartments | 25 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.