Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 780

Name: Armstrong Garden Centers 780 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Novato, CA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade B.

Armstrong Garden Centers 780: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 held a steady TCR band

Armstrong Garden Centers 780's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Novato, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #3/75
PHOTO Casa Verde
BOOK 5y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Casa Verde (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.2
Casa Verde

2.2
Stein's Garden

2.2
River Valley C

2.2
Farmers' Assoc

2.2

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 780 averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 780 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 (15 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 780 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
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	11.1	11.1	1
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Novato

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 79 employers in Novato, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Casa Verde	COLUMBIA STATION, OH	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stein's Garden & Home Oshkosh	OSHKOSH, WI	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	River Valley Cooperative- Galva	GALVA, IL	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farmers' Association	LITTLE ROCK, AR	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	JK FARMS	ARBUCKLE	15 FTE
STATE-SIZE	workers	FRESNO	15 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pajaro Valley	PAJARO VALLEY	15 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MMF-Hemet	HEMET	15 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.	Novato	2,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Township Building Services, Inc.	Novato	1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sutter Bay Hospitals (30256)	Novato	355 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Novato Community Hospital (274-NC-HSP)	Novato	337 FTE
NAT-TCR	Elliott Electric Supply #81	Amarillo, TX	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arbor Glen	Fort Wayne, IN	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Geneseek Building	Lincoln, NE	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harrah	Harrah, OK	2.2 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.