Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers

Carlsbad, CA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Armstrong Garden Centers: 7.1 TCR = 208% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.62 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%).

Rising injury rate

Armstrong Garden Centers: 0.0 → 19.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.77× in 2020

Armstrong Garden Centers's TCR rose 19.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 19.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 208% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #41/75
  • PHOTO Chuck Hafner's Farme…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chuck Hafner's Farmers Market, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers averages 7.1 TCR (208% 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 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=19.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #41 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers (25 employees, TCR 7.1) 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
Armstrong Garden Centers (25 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers 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
2020 19.6 19.6 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.7 8.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · Carlsbad

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 Chuck Hafner's Farmers Market, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri Supply of Monroe 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-063-Norwalk ( RK-063 ) 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardens Alive Fulfillment Center 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR 0000000030 Quickchek Food Stores 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 7541-Enphg-Univ of Arts Philadelphia 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Orthopedic Physicians Alaska Wasilla Location 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1415 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0000000026 Quickchek Food Stores 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 231 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 073708-Glenwood Spgs Po 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spokane SP 25 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: 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.