Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 722

Sherman Oaks, CA · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Armstrong Garden Centers 722: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 held a steady TCR band

Armstrong Garden Centers 722's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Sherman Oaks, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/75
  • PHOTO Cornelius Store 301
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cornelius Store 301 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 722 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 722 averages 4.7 TCR (139% 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 722 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 722 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #17 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 (26 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 722
Armstrong Garden Centers 722 (26 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 722 has fewer employees than the Garden centers median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.2 10.2 2 0 0
2021 14.1 14.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.9 8.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Sherman Oaks

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 47 employers in Sherman Oaks, 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 Cornelius Store 301 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gethsemane Garden Center LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bachman's Lyndale 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 735 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherman Oaks Fashion Square 501 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR IMT Residential 464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 71501 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 72029 243 FTE
NAT-TCR ToyotaLift NE - VIC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Njtoms-E1q-Toms River 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 01-03-02 West Div - Rocky Mountain Region 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercedes-Benz of Farmington 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Groendyke Transport - Pueblo 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dependable Facility Services 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE TUP-ODFL 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenosha Place Senior Living I 26 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.