Employer · California

113 - Gardena

Los Angeles, CA · ~257 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

113 - Gardena runs at 519% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

113 - Gardena: 11.4 TCR = 519% of industry BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

113 - Gardena safety composite

113 - Gardena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

113 - Gardena: 5.9 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

113 - Gardena's TCR rose 9.6 from 5.9 in 2021 to 15.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 519% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #45/58
  • PHOTO Venture South Distri…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 104 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Venture South Distributors (0.0 TCR gap)

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113 - Gardena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 113 - Gardena averages 11.4 TCR (519% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

113 - Gardena TCR series: 2021=5.9 · 2022=15.4 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 2.2

Where 113 - Gardena falls in its industry

664 industry establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 58 industry employers in California.

113 - Gardena (257 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 113 - Gardena
113 - Gardena (257 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

113 - Gardena has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 15.5 13.0 37 7 0
2023 8.8 8.5 22 3 0
2022 15.4 14.7 37 3 0
2021 5.9 5.9 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · CA · Los Angeles

664 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 Venture South Distributors 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine Distributors 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6378-63780003 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Sales Company, LP Louisville, KY 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Premier Mushrooms 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kern Labor Contracting, Inc 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE KEARNY - 1 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRL Systems, Inc. 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 8002 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 10 Maple Road, Randolph MA 02368 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR L H Lacy Company Ltd 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Region Cooperative - SE Agronomy East/BCA/Shop 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boys & Girls Village 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE E&K of Kansas City, Inc. 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Film Products Company, Inc. 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Foods 257 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.