Mechanical contractors · Florida

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical

Merritt Island, FL · ~69 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mechanical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical: 4.9 TCR = 175% of Mechanical contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical safety composite

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical: 4.7 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2020

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.7 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Merritt Island, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #257/425
  • PHOTO R & R Inc of Louisvi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R & R Inc of Louisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sauer Group Cape Mechanical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sauer Group Cape Mechanical averages 4.9 TCR (175% of the Mechanical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Sauer Group Cape Mechanical falls in its industry

5,793 Mechanical contractors establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #257 safest of 425 Mechanical contractors employers in Florida.

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical (69 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sauer Group Cape Mechanical
Sauer Group Cape Mechanical (69 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sauer Group Cape Mechanical has more employees than the Mechanical contractors 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
2020 6.7 2.2 9 0 0
2019 6.3 1.3 5 0 0
2018 6.8 4.5 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · FL · Merritt Island

5,793 Mechanical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 43 employers in Merritt Island, 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 R & R Inc of Louisville 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HWE Woburn HVAC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR office 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hometown Heat Pumps Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roth Farms, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE PM1 Pompano Beach Service Center 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ric-Man Construction Florida, Inc. 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florida 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin Florida, LLC 1,747 FTE
CITY-NEAR PAE BOSS Contract 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sea Ray Merritt Island Complex 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 771 357 FTE
NAT-TCR FirstService Residential Minnesota, Corporate Office 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animal DBA The Wilds 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AWL Industries, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Board of Retirement 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joseph Phelps Vineyards - Winery 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Club at Woodland Hills 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delcom Corporation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metric Concrete Services, Inc. 69 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.