Nursery stock growing · Georgia

Classic Groundcovers, Inc

Athens, GA · ~41 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Classic Groundcovers, Inc runs at 380% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Classic Groundcovers, Inc: 17.1 TCR = 380% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Classic Groundcovers, Inc safety composite

Classic Groundcovers, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Classic Groundcovers, Inc: 9.6 → 23.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Classic Groundcovers, Inc's TCR rose 13.5 from 9.6 in 2020 to 23.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Athens, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 380% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Norman's Nursery, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norman's Nursery, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Classic Groundcovers, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Classic Groundcovers, Inc averages 17.1 TCR (380% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Classic Groundcovers, Inc TCR series: 2020=9.6 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=32.9 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=23.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Classic Groundcovers, Inc falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Nursery stock growing employers in Georgia.

Classic Groundcovers, Inc (41 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Classic Groundcovers, Inc
Classic Groundcovers, Inc (41 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Classic Groundcovers, Inc has fewer employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 23.2 3.9 6 0 0
2023 9.1 3.0 3 0 0
2022 32.9 3.7 8 1 0
2021 10.6 7.1 3 0 0
2020 9.6 4.8 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · GA · Athens

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 187 employers in Athens, GA · 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 Norman's Nursery, Inc. 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeSource 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co. 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Shady Dale, GA 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sol America Energy 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocmulgee Electric Membership Corporation 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Austell Operating 2525 Old Alabama Rd Austell 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital 2,805 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Health Care System-SMHCS-GA 1,509 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST.MARYS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM 1,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Health Care System Inc.- Athens 1,187 FTE
NAT-TCR Christian Rest Home Association 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Casella Waste - Columbia 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HW Village 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lutheran Home: Hope Residence 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 35th/Happy Valley 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 303/Waddell 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Core Health & Fitness - Lake Forest 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gsp-Ground Ops 41 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. 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.