Garden centers · California

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792

San Marcos, CA · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade C.

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792: 3.5 TCR = 102% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 safety composite

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 San Marcos 792: 0.0 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2023

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #9/75
  • PHOTO New Century FS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Century FS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 averages 3.5 TCR (102% 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 San Marcos 792 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #9 safest of 75 Garden centers employers in California.

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 (28 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 San Marcos 792
Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 (28 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Armstrong Garden Centers San Marcos 792 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2022 10.2 10.2 3 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CA · San Marcos

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in San Marcos, 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 New Century FS 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strein's Garden & Home Greenfield Store 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grass Pad - Barry Road 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fillmore Retail 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinbeck Country Produce 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Industries 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08180552 SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASMR - SAN MARCOS 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN MARCOS (CASMR) 555 FTE
NAT-TCR North America : Pottsville 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Berlin Hotel Operating 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DMG Paving & Grading Construction 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cactus Lane Farm 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5080 - WA Benton County 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopkinsville Mother Plant 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lmmm Dallas #37, LTD 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin & Cobey Construction Co., Inc. 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.