Nursery stock growing · Ohio

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc.

Perry, OH · ~54 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade B.

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc.: 3.4 TCR = 75% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. safety composite

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc.: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Perry, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Dewar Nurseries, Inc…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora (0.0 TCR gap)

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C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. averages 3.4 TCR (75% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Nursery stock growing employers in Ohio.

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. (54 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc.
C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. (54 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

C.M. Brown Nurseries, Inc. has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a lower 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 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.5 3.2 2 0 0
2020 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.6 10.6 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · OH · Perry

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 11 employers in Perry, OH · 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 Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Mount Dora 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Sod Farms 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foertmeyer & Sons Greenhouse 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR L E Cooke Co 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butt Construction Co., Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office/Shop 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferguson Construction Comany-Columbus 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Sweeping 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perry 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perry Nuclear Power Plant 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cottage Gardens, Inc. 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Losely 67 FTE
NAT-TCR Henwil Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hirschi Companies 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roastar 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1681 Corporate Dr Mckinney Tx 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3525 N Hwy 77 Waxahachie Tx 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE IMG Citrus, Inc. 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.