Agricultural Grower · Florida

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc

Stuart, FL · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural Grower workplace, earning a grade F.

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc: 16.4 TCR = 364% of Agricultural Grower BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc safety composite

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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 Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc: 9.7 → 23.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 23.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc's TCR rose 13.5 from 9.7 in 2017 to 23.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Stuart, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 364% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/35
  • PHOTO Classic Groundcovers…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Classic Groundcovers, Inc (0.7 TCR gap)

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Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc averages 16.4 TCR (364% of the Agricultural Grower BLS benchmark).

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

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc TCR series: 2017=9.7 · 2018=23.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc falls in its industry

386 Agricultural Grower establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 35 Agricultural Grower employers in Florida.

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc (27 employees, TCR 16.4) 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 Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc
Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc (27 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Classic Growers/A Division of The Cottage Gardens Inc has fewer employees than the Agricultural Grower 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
2018 23.1 0.0 6 0 0
2017 9.7 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Stuart

386 Agricultural Grower employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 138 employers in Stuart, 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 Classic Groundcovers, Inc 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norman's Nursery, Inc. 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun City Tree Farm 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeSource 17.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE C. ELTON CREWS, INC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Homestead 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Oasis 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cocoa Sod 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2160 SE Ocean Blvd Bldg. 2 (Thrift Shop) (TCH5) 4,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Memorial Health Systems Inc 4,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC MARTIN HEALTH 1,836 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuCO2, LLC 1,136 FTE
NAT-TCR Transportation 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Malvern - 252 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh Center 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gardens of Sun City 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suites on Paseo 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale New Bern 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burbank 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deans Electric Inc 27 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.