Ornamental plant growing · Florida

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd

Zolfo Springs, FL · ~73 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ornamental plant growing workplace, earning a grade B.

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd: 2.5 TCR = 55% of Ornamental plant growing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd safety composite

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd: 2.4 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Zolfo Springs, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO Heart of Florida Gre…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heart of Florida Greenhouses, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buckhorn Nursery Ltd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buckhorn Nursery Ltd averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Ornamental plant growing BLS benchmark).

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

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Buckhorn Nursery Ltd falls in its industry

166 Ornamental plant growing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Ornamental plant growing employers in Florida.

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd (73 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buckhorn Nursery Ltd
Buckhorn Nursery Ltd (73 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Buckhorn Nursery Ltd has more employees than the Ornamental plant growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 3.6 2.4 1 2 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.7 0.0 2 1 0
2019 2.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.2 1.1 4 0 0
2017 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2016 2.4 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · FL · Zolfo Springs

166 Ornamental plant growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 5 employers in Zolfo Springs, FL · 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 Heart of Florida Greenhouses, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C3 Industries, Inc - Franklin 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coram Flora 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Young's Plant Farm, Inc. (Farm 1) 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amelia Farm 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bushnell 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Double J Harvesting, Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grove Services Inc of Miami 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zolfo Springs, FL 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR DB Sweetwater 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIELDS EQUIPMENT ZOLFO 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Channahon 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hudson Company of Tennessee (Home Office) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Teti Bakery, USA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Servico 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE DSP 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro Tube Enterprises, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Byrdstown, LLC--Pickett Care 73 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, 2017, 2016. 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.