Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers 794

Fallbrook, CA · ~90 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers 794: 10.0 TCR = 294% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−11.4

2017→2023

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 injury rate improved

Armstrong Garden Centers 794's TCR fell 11.4 from 17.6 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=17.6 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=13.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 294% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #57/75
  • PHOTO RK-088-Marysville ( …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-088-Marysville ( RK-088 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers 794 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers 794 averages 10.0 TCR (294% 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 794 TCR series: 2017=17.6 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=13.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=6.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers 794 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #57 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 (90 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 794
Armstrong Garden Centers 794 (90 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 794 has more 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 6.3 6.3 5 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2021 13.8 13.8 12 0 0
2020 8.8 8.8 8 0 0
2019 7.4 7.4 8 0 0
2018 13.1 13.1 10 0 0
2017 17.6 17.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Fallbrook

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Fallbrook, 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-088-Marysville ( RK-088 ) 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leesburg Meadows Farms 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-062-Bloomington ( RK-062 ) 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-054-Circleville ( RK-054 ) 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-FALLBROOK 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fallbrook - 01 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fallbrook Healing Center 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fallbrook 189 FTE
NAT-TCR The Terrace at Denison 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4223-M0800 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1414 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Fireplaces-Lehi 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Perspective - Mankato 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galveston Pier 39 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lourdes Home Care 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1220 Exhibits, Inc 90 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.