Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 709

Temecula, CA · ~22 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 709: 8.4 TCR = 246% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Armstrong Garden Centers 709: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 29.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 709's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 29.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #49/75
  • PHOTO RK-079-Greenwood ( R…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-079-Greenwood ( RK-079 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 709 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 709 averages 8.4 TCR (246% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=29.8 · 2022=12.2 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 709 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #49 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 (22 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Armstrong Garden Centers 709
Armstrong Garden Centers 709 (22 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 709 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 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2022 12.2 12.2 2 0 0
2021 29.8 29.8 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.6 8.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Temecula

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 164 employers in Temecula, 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 RK-079-Greenwood ( RK-079 ) 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Markman Peat 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-085-Farmington ( RK-085 ) 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 24 - Theisen's - Davenport 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR AV Temecula Campus 1,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR AV-Temecula Campus 1,493 FTE
CITY-NEAR 289 TEMECULA VALLEY HOSPITAL, INC.-TEMECULA VALLEY HOSPITAL 1,200 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-289 726 FTE
NAT-TCR 6242 Ridge Plaza 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medicalodges Columbus 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Shower Door of Colorado 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 011-Ff01-Eau Claire Mall 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE *Norristown Family Physicians 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE True World Foods Dallas LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACW Construction 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE SHV-ODFL 22 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, 2017. 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.