Nursery stock growing · Ohio

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc.

Brookville, OH · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade B.

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 79% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. safety composite

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc.: 4.3 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2023

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Brookville, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 79% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Fair View Nursery, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fair View Nursery, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (79% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Nursery stock growing employers in Ohio.

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc.
A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 5.6 1.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2019 5.6 3.4 5 0 0
2018 4.3 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OH · Brookville

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 10 employers in Brookville, OH · 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 Fair View Nursery, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wonderful Nurseries 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willowbend Nurseries, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DURLING NURSERY, INC. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bay Shore 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE 971-NiSource-Toledo OH-Op Ctr Manhattan Blv 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Dayton Construction LTD 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction One, Inc. 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookhaven Retirement Community 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR ODW - Dayton 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Offices 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ritter Plumbing Co. Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Shippers Warehouse - Orlando 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PG - Pagosa Springs 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Divine House Inc. - Detroit Lakes 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DATTCO - Thompson 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omnium - Hampton, IA 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Counsel 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Management, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Builders Supply of Valdosta, Inc. 73 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.