PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPERATIONS · Florida

Southern Colors, Inc.

Palm Bay, FL · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Colors, Inc. runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPERATIONS workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Colors, Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 49% of PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPERATIONS BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Colors, Inc. safety composite

Southern Colors, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Southern Colors, Inc.: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2020

Southern Colors, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Palm Bay, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 49% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #9/44
  • PHOTO Russell Hinton Co.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Russell Hinton Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Colors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Colors, Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (49% of the PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPERATIONS BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Colors, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Southern Colors, Inc. falls in its industry

582 PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 44 PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & employers in Florida.

Southern Colors, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 Southern Colors, Inc.
Southern Colors, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Southern Colors, Inc. has fewer employees than the PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPER median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · FL · Palm Bay

582 PAINTING(OR PAPERHANGING)NOC & SHOP OPERATIONS employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 69 employers in Palm Bay, 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 Russell Hinton Co. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Namho Enterprises LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Stripping Company 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Certified Coatings Company 1.4 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 L3Harris Technologies INC Palm Bay Campus 4,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palm Bay FL 2400 Palm Bay Rd 4,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palm Bay FL 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palm Bay Hospital 653 FTE
NAT-TCR California - LRS 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 978 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lata - Oho 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 610 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Mobile, AL 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laguna Hills Retail Store 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-192-OUTLETS 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSA Constructors Inc. 25 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.