Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 729

Irvine, CA · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 runs at 432% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 729: 14.7 TCR = 432% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

TCR Δ

−25.3

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 729's TCR fell 25.3 from 25.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 37.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=25.3 · 2018=22.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=37.8 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 432% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #70/75
  • PHOTO Radium Springs
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Radium Springs (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 729 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 729 averages 14.7 TCR (432% 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 729 TCR series: 2017=25.3 · 2018=22.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=37.8 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 729 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #70 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 (19 employees, TCR 14.7) 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 729
Armstrong Garden Centers 729 (19 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 729 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2021 37.8 37.8 3 0 0
2020 10.5 10.5 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 22.6 22.6 2 0 0
2017 25.3 25.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Irvine

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Radium Springs 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bachman's Eden Prairie 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agway of Cape Cod - Orleans 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3114_6024 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Gresham 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Danco Construction LLC 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Azalea Trace 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 351008-Bfl-Westside Sta 14.7 TCR

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.