Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 716

Encinitas, CA · ~21 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 runs at 636% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 716: 21.6 TCR = 636% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 716's TCR fell 4.7 from 22.1 in 2017 to 17.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 34.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=22.1 · 2018=33.2 · 2019=19.1 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=34.6 · 2022=16.0 · 2023=17.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 21.6 · 636% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #75/75
  • PHOTO Homestead Gardens, I…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail (0.3 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 716 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 716 averages 21.6 TCR (636% 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 716 TCR series: 2017=22.1 · 2018=33.2 · 2019=19.1 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=34.6 · 2022=16 · 2023=17.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 716 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #75 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 (21 employees, TCR 21.6) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Armstrong Garden Centers 716
Armstrong Garden Centers 716 (21 employees, TCR 21.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 716 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 17.3 17.3 2 0 0
2022 16.0 16.0 2 0 0
2021 34.6 34.6 4 0 0
2020 9.2 9.2 1 0 0
2019 19.1 19.1 2 0 0
2018 33.2 33.2 3 0 0
2017 22.1 22.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Encinitas

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in Encinitas, 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 Homestead Gardens, Inc. - SP Retail 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rt7 Herndon Meadows Farms 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunnyside Gardens 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otten Brothers Nursery & Landscaping, Inc. 20.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2261-00000320 1,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dudek 810 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1029 - Encinitas 284 FTE
NAT-TCR The Homestead 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vonderlieth Living Center 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Memorial Rest Home 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodlands Memory Care of Lewiston 21.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frank J. Thornton YMCA Aquatic Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Kennewick 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Plating Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralston Hospitality Group 21 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.