Garden centers · Indiana

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc.

Jasper, IN · ~29 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc.: 9.5 TCR = 280% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. safety composite

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc.: 7.7 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.2 from 7.7 in 2016 to 15.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Jasper, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 280% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO RK-034-West Evansvil…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-034-West Evansville ( RK-034 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. averages 9.5 TCR (280% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=18.2 · 2020=11 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 Garden centers employers in Indiana.

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc.
Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Buschkoetter's Nursery, Lawn and Garden Center, Inc. has fewer employees than the Garden centers median and a higher 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 15.9 6.4 5 0 0
2023 10.1 0.0 3 0 0
2022 7.3 3.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.0 3.6 3 0 0
2019 18.2 0.0 5 0 0
2018 11.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · IN · Jasper

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 81 employers in Jasper, IN · 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 RK-034-West Evansville ( RK-034 ) 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hinsdale Nurseries. Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-033-Kendalville ( RK-033 ) 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 715 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calf Land LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE LeMaster Steel Erectors Inc. - Noblesville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 640-NiSource-Kokomo IN-Home Ave 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Clarksville 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center 1,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimball Electronics 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimball Electronics Jasper 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc. Jasper, IN 520 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Streetsboro 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carmen Barbato, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 042/Bryan College 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Reel Core Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ebinger Iron Works, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Location 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE BlueWater Ropes 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-R-O-T Incorporated 29 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.