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

Bell Nursery - Store Employees

Elkridge, MD · ~557 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell Nursery - Store Employees runs at 261% 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 - Store Employees: 5.7 TCR = 261% of Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell Nursery - Store Employees safety composite

Bell Nursery - Store Employees scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Bell Nursery - Store Employees held a steady TCR band

Bell Nursery - Store Employees's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Elkridge, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 261% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO FALCON FARMS- FL
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 110 inj
  • SIZE ~557 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FALCON FARMS- FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell Nursery - Store Employees in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell Nursery - Store Employees averages 5.7 TCR (261% 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 - Store Employees TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=6 · 2023=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Bell Nursery - Store Employees falls in its industry

185 Nursery stock (except plant bu establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bell Nursery - Store Employees (557 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 - Store Employees
Bell Nursery - Store Employees (557 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Bell Nursery - Store Employees has more 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 4.0 3.1 17 0 0
2022 6.0 4.9 27 0 0
2021 5.4 4.7 17 0 0
2020 8.3 7.6 24 0 0
2019 6.5 2.0 18 1 0
2018 4.3 2.4 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · MD · Elkridge

185 Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 90 employers in Elkridge, MD · 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 FALCON FARMS- FL 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Progro Partners-Colorado 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lurvey Landscape Supply - Des Plaines (Wholesale) 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LiveTrends Design Group, LLC. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allan Myers - MD 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE THURMONT 556 FTE
STATE-SIZE 978 Fre1000 558 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clampett Industries LLC d/b/a EMG - Corporate Office 554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SMD1 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Executive Maintenance, Inc. 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Center for Social Change 419 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-Q953 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Persona Madison 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pittsboro 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Ligonier 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NurseCore of St Petersburg 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 330 Community Dr 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Valley Hospital District 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA - Vernon - 3220 E. 26th St - The American Bottling Company 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Mennonite Home 557 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.