Mixing purchased fertilizer materials · Florida

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid

Lake Placid, FL · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mixing purchased fertilizer materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid safety composite

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−5.9

2017→2022

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid injury rate improved

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid's TCR fell 5.9 from 8.8 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Lake Placid, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO New Earth CNS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Earth CNS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials BLS benchmark).

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

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid falls in its industry

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #13 safest of 15 Mixing purchased fertilizer ma employers in Florida.

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid (29 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid
Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid (29 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Wedgworth's Inc Lake Placid has fewer employees than the Mixing purchased fertilizer materials 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
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 13.5 10.1 4 0 0
2017 8.8 8.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · FL · Lake Placid

163 Mixing purchased fertilizer materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 21 employers in Lake Placid, 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 New Earth CNS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Seymour 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Mulch 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winston Weaver Fertilizer, Inc. 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RB Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW Turf Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heart of Florida Greenhouses, Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Gardens Citrus Nursery, LLC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Placid Health and Rehabilitation Center 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida Hospital Lake Placid 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1547 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Lake Placid 136 FTE
NAT-TCR 442 - Austell 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mathewson Lane 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1119 - Lacey 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 4420 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMR Transportation 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Mfg. shop 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #716 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #701 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.