Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 763

El Cajon, CA · ~17 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 763 runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 763: 10.3 TCR = 303% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 763 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 763 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 31.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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 763: 10.7 → 31.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 31.2 TCR · DART/TCR 3.03× in 2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 763's TCR rose 20.5 from 10.7 in 2017 to 31.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 303% of ind

  • DART 31.2 DART
  • RANK #58/75
  • PHOTO RK-023-Lafayette ( R…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-023-Lafayette ( RK-023 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 763 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 763 averages 10.3 TCR (303% 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 763 TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2018=20.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=10 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=31.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 763 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #58 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 763 (17 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 763
Armstrong Garden Centers 763 (17 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 763 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 31.2 31.2 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.0 10.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 20.2 20.2 2 0 0
2017 10.7 10.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · El Cajon

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR RK-023-Lafayette ( RK-023 ) 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MVG Business LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR North 40 Outfitters #3 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marion, Ohio Rural King Supply Inc. 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Dixon Research Station 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laub Ranches Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Equipment Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Ranch, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Gear Co. of America, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux City Foundry Co 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR In-Flight Catering 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tim Ryan Construction, Inc. 10.3 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.