Nursery and garden centers without tree production · Minnesota

Central Turf Farms

Forest Lake, MN · ~14 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Turf Farms runs at 389% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery and garden centers without tree production workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Turf Farms: 13.2 TCR = 389% of Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Turf Farms safety composite

Central Turf Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Central Turf Farms: 6.7 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 27.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Central Turf Farms's TCR rose 5.4 from 6.7 in 2018 to 12.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 27.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 389% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Southern States Cree…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Creedmoor Service (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Turf Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Turf Farms averages 13.2 TCR (389% of the Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS benchmark).

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

Central Turf Farms TCR series: 2018=6.7 · 2019=20.8 · 2020=19.2 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=27.1 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Central Turf Farms falls in its industry

642 Nursery and garden centers wit establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Nursery and garden centers wit employers in Minnesota.

Central Turf Farms (14 employees, TCR 13.2) 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 Central Turf Farms
Central Turf Farms (14 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Central Turf Farms has fewer employees than the Nursery and garden centers without tree 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 12.1 6.0 2 0 0
2023 27.1 10.8 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 19.2 6.4 3 0 0
2019 20.8 13.9 2 1 0
2018 6.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · MN · Forest Lake

642 Nursery and garden centers without tree production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest Lake, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Southern States Creedmoor Service 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swansons Nursery 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 765 Armstrong Garden Centers 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Cloverdale Distribution Center 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin TD 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Sanitation Building 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & J Waste Handling, LLC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Insituform Technologies USA LLC - Anoka 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Remico 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AZT002 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS033 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Motor Mfg. Mississippi 13.2 TCR

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.