Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Southern Specialties, Inc

Pompano Beach, FL · ~168 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Specialties, Inc runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Specialties, Inc: 1.9 TCR = 84% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Specialties, Inc safety composite

Southern Specialties, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2023→2024

Southern Specialties, Inc injury rate improved

Southern Specialties, Inc's TCR fell 1.3 from 2.5 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.5 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Pompano Beach, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #9/45
  • PHOTO California Giant Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Giant Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Specialties, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Specialties, Inc averages 1.9 TCR (84% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Specialties, Inc TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Specialties, Inc falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 45 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in Florida.

Southern Specialties, Inc (168 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Specialties, Inc
Southern Specialties, Inc (168 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Southern Specialties, Inc has more employees than the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2023 2.5 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · FL · Pompano Beach

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 322 employers in Pompano Beach, 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 California Giant Incorporated 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Garden Wholesale, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Field Farms 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calavo Growers 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Operations - Indiantown, FL 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crisdel Group INC 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bates Electric Inc 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Mechanical, LLC 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point Blank Enterprises Inc. 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZFTL 685 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Knox Village of Florida 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - POMPANO BEACH 38111 591 FTE
NAT-TCR Niagara LaSalle Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American Emergency Vehicles 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170855808 - IA-Des Moines-Pilot Travel Center 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR C.E Niehoff & Co. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Hill 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nutrivo, LLC 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martinrea Tuscaloosa, Inc. 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simpson and Brown 168 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.