Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 737

Pasadena, CA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 737 runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 737: 9.0 TCR = 265% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 737 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 737 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 737: 6.8 → 24.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 24.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.69× in 2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 737's TCR rose 17.5 from 6.8 in 2017 to 24.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 265% of ind

  • DART 24.2 DART
  • RANK #53/75
  • PHOTO RK-077-Greenville ( …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-077-Greenville ( RK-077 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 737 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 737 averages 9.0 TCR (265% 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 737 TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=13.5 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=24.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 737 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #53 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 737 (34 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 737
Armstrong Garden Centers 737 (34 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 737 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 24.2 24.2 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2019 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2018 13.5 13.5 2 0 0
2017 6.8 6.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Pasadena

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 195 employers in Pasadena, 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-077-Greenville ( RK-077 ) 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-004-Litchfield ( RK-004 ) 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Star FS, Inc. Cambridge 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon City 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACCO Engineered Systems 4,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2313-00000001 4,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Pasadena 2,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntington Hospital 2,228 FTE
NAT-TCR Hansen Manufacturing Corp d/b/a Hi Roller Conveyors 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Automotive Services, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ponca City Discount Food 419 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Therese of New Hope 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Double E 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groendyke Transport - Phoenix 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Data Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NMC Franchising 34 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.