Landscape care and maintenance services · Rhode Island

Central Nurseries Inc

Johnston, RI · ~54 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Nurseries Inc runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Nurseries Inc: 5.6 TCR = 124% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Nurseries Inc safety composite

Central Nurseries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Central Nurseries Inc: 2.5 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Central Nurseries Inc's TCR rose 13.3 from 2.5 in 2021 to 15.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Johnston, RI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 124% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Heritage Landscape S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heritage Landscape Silver Spring (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Nurseries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Nurseries Inc averages 5.6 TCR (124% of the Landscape care and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Central Nurseries Inc TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Nurseries Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Rhode Island alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Landscape care and maintenance employers in Rhode Island.

Central Nurseries Inc (54 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Nurseries Inc
Central Nurseries Inc (54 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Central Nurseries Inc has more employees than the Landscape care and maintenance services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 15.8 0.0 8 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · RI · Johnston

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 71 employers in Johnston, RI · 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 Heritage Landscape Silver Spring 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bemus Landscape Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 277301 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Multiwall Packaging - Taylor 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tag Central Ave LLC 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 117 West Woonsocket RI 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.R. Vinagro Corporation 599 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #90 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherry Hill Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherry Hill Manor 250 FTE
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing West - Englewood Co 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pontiac 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Doris Italian Market NPB 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPA7 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sprayfoams Roofing Southwest 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Forging Co. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson Ford Lincoln LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Identification Products 54 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. 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.