Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 759

San Diego, CA · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 759: 8.9 TCR = 261% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

−15.2

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 759's TCR fell 15.2 from 33.3 in 2017 to 18.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 33.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=33.3 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=18.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 261% of ind

  • DART 18.1 DART
  • RANK #52/75
  • PHOTO North 40 Outfitters #B
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North 40 Outfitters #B (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 759 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 759 averages 8.9 TCR (261% 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 759 TCR series: 2017=33.3 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=18.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 759 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #52 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 (18 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 759
Armstrong Garden Centers 759 (18 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 759 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 18.1 18.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.6 10.6 1 0 0
2017 33.3 22.2 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · San Diego

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR North 40 Outfitters #B 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 61 Meadville 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 17 - Theisen's - Grinnell 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon City 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Hibino Farms LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA, INC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Coast Farms 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM.CLAUSE Davis East Research Station 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Medicalodges Kinsley 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Commerce City Production Facility 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McRee Ford-Dickinson, TX 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Assembly Products, Inc. 8.9 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.