Garden centers · Ohio

Berns Garden Center

Middletown, OH · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berns Garden Center runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade B.

Berns Garden Center: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berns Garden Center safety composite

Berns Garden Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−10.0

2018→2024

Berns Garden Center injury rate improved

Berns Garden Center's TCR fell 10.0 from 10.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Middletown, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/62
  • PHOTO BIG R SPARKS
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BIG R SPARKS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berns Garden Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berns Garden Center averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Berns Garden Center TCR series: 2018=10 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Berns Garden Center falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 62 Garden centers employers in Ohio.

Berns Garden Center (31 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Berns Garden Center
Berns Garden Center (31 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Berns Garden Center 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · OH · Middletown

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 125 employers in Middletown, OH · 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 BIG R SPARKS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home West Bend 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Race Brothers Farm & Home Supply 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rohr and Sons Nursery Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Valley Ranch 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Layer 5 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 3 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp. Middletown Works 2,339 FTE
CITY-NEAR AK Steel - Middletown Works 2,288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 870 - EFC1 Monroe, OH 1,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atrium Medical Center 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR FLEN Boynton Beach Engineering 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PW-Transportation Project Delivery 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking SupplyNet & Fabrication Services - Richmond 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocer Supply Company : Holcombe Houston, TX (GDC) 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Belford Electric, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Authority Heating & Cooling 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frontier General Contracting, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE BNACB - Courtyard by Marriott Murfreesboro 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.