Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 741

Newport Beach, CA · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 741: 9.2 TCR = 271% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−21.6

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 741's TCR fell 21.6 from 21.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 21.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=21.6 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=18.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Newport Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 271% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #54/75
  • PHOTO RK-111-Washington ( …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-111-Washington ( RK-111 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 741 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 741 averages 9.2 TCR (271% 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 741 TCR series: 2017=21.6 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=18.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 741 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #54 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 (36 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 741
Armstrong Garden Centers 741 (36 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 741 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 18.3 18.3 3 0 0
2020 11.4 11.4 2 0 0
2019 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2017 21.6 21.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Newport Beach

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 106 employers in Newport Beach, 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-111-Washington ( RK-111 ) 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-696-Trans ( RK-696 ) 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri Direct of Selma 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR North 40 Outfitters #7 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian 8,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoag Hospital 5,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian - Irvine 2,615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Irvine Company Resorts Division 2,175 FTE
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Eugene 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Dade Police Department HQ 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Ft Myers 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United 378 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE *Moss Rehab @ Jeff Bucks 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hinz Company, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Becker Showroom 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Tumwater 36 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.