Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 735

Westchester, CA · ~15 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 735 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Armstrong Garden Centers 735: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 735 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 735 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 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−12.2

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 735 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 735's TCR fell 12.2 from 12.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/75
  • PHOTO Cornelius Store 301
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

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

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Armstrong Garden Centers 735 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 735 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 735 TCR series: 2017=12.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 735 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #18 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 735 (15 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 735
Armstrong Garden Centers 735 (15 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 735 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.3 11.3 1 0 0
2020 9.7 9.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 12.2 12.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Westchester

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 8 employers in Westchester, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR 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 St George 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE JK FARMS 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR My Life Foundation 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1385 - Westchester 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Farms - 004 - BF Westchester 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trader Joe's 0033 Westchester 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Poplar Creek Senior Care 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cohen Children's Medical Ctr 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trench Shore Rentals -Phoenix 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AJR 4.7 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.