Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Florida

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc.

Name: Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lakeland, FL · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. safety composite

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2023→2024

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. injury rate improved

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.3 from 2.2 in 2023 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.2 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Lakeland, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/33
PHOTO McVantage Packaging …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McVantage Packaging - Tuscumbia (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. falls in its industry

952 Skids and pallets, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 33 Skids and pallets, wood or woo employers in Florida.

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. (104 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Southern Milling & Lumber, Inc. has more employees than the Skids and pallets, wood or wood and meta median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2024	1.0	0.0	1	0	0
2023	2.2	2.2	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · FL · Lakeland

952 Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	McVantage Packaging - Tuscumbia	TUSCUMBIA, AL	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cardinal Pallet Co. Inc	CHICAGO, IL	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Universal Forest Products - Salisbury, LLC.	SALISBURY, NC	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Swift Creek Forest Products	JETERSVILLE, VA	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	420	HIALEAH	104 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gary Alligood	ST. AUGUSTINE	104 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ACE Companies Inc	CLEARWATER	104 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Titan Electric Southeast LLC	ORLANDA	104 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeland Regional Medical Center	Lakeland	5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeland Distribution	Lakeland	2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Clinic	Lakeland	1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL	Lakeland	1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hershey	Hershey, PA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Garner Operations Center	Raleigh, NC	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	LTAC of Louisiana LLC	Lafayette, LA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Seaboard Foods Lp Iowa Falls Fm Delivery	Iowa Falls, IA	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Magnolia Glen	Raleigh, NC	104 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Store 096	Canton, GA	104 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Transport - 861 861SH	Phoenix, AZ	104 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Native Hardwoods	Elkhart, IN	104 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: 2024, 2023. 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.