Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers · Delaware

Bell Nursery - Newark

Newark, DE · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell Nursery - Newark runs at 763% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bell Nursery - Newark: 16.8 TCR = 763% of Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell Nursery - Newark safety composite

Bell Nursery - Newark scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bell Nursery - Newark: 22.1 → 22.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2023

Bell Nursery - Newark's TCR rose 0.6 from 22.1 in 2019 to 22.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Newark, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 763% of ind

  • DART 18.9 DART
  • RANK P1
  • PHOTO Devil Mountain Whole…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery-San Ramon (0.3 TCR gap)

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Bell Nursery - Newark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell Nursery - Newark averages 16.8 TCR (763% of the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bell Nursery - Newark TCR series: 2019=22.1 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=10.8 · 2022=10 · 2023=22.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Bell Nursery - Newark falls in its industry

185 Nursery stock (except plant bu establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bell Nursery - Newark (31 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bell Nursery - Newark
Bell Nursery - Newark (31 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Bell Nursery - Newark has fewer employees than the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 22.7 18.9 6 0 0
2022 10.0 10.0 3 0 0
2021 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2020 18.4 18.4 5 0 0
2019 22.1 14.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · DE · Newark

185 Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery-San Ramon 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona - 02 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Antonio - 18 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lurvey Landscape Supply - Park City 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC - New Castle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corrado Management Services LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Claymont 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDIX - Newark 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Spokane-N Nevada #068 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Running with Lions Logistics 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-02552 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HG313 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern States Loudoun County Coop 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE VanSantis Development Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5020160 - Sunnyvale Civic Center 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5919028 - Calexico LPOE Phase 2 31 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.

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