Garden centers · California

765 Armstrong Garden Centers

Carlsbad, CA · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

765 Armstrong Garden Centers runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

765 Armstrong Garden Centers: 13.0 TCR = 382% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

765 Armstrong Garden Centers safety composite

765 Armstrong Garden Centers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

765 Armstrong Garden Centers: 0.0 → 26.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 26.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2023

765 Armstrong Garden Centers's TCR rose 26.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 26.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 382% of ind

  • DART 26.6 DART
  • RANK #69/75
  • PHOTO Southern States Clov…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Cloverdale Distribution Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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765 Armstrong Garden Centers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 765 Armstrong Garden Centers averages 13.0 TCR (382% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

765 Armstrong Garden Centers TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=12.3 · 2023=26.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 765 Armstrong Garden Centers falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

765 Armstrong Garden Centers (25 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 765 Armstrong Garden Centers
765 Armstrong Garden Centers (25 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

765 Armstrong Garden Centers has fewer employees than the Garden centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2023 26.6 26.6 3 0 0
2022 12.3 12.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Carlsbad

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 Southern States Cloverdale Distribution Center 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-009-Princeton ( RK-009 ) 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swansons Nursery 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaside 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Hedstrom Plastics LLC 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Vantage Plane Plastics LTD 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wood Products Corp Inc 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Howard Heights 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loffredo Fresh Foods - MAD 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenosha Place 2 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. L. Proler Iron & Steel Company 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cast Systems LLC 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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