Landscape care and maintenance services · South Carolina

Cold Creek Nurseries

Aiken, SC · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cold Creek Nurseries runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Landscape care and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Cold Creek Nurseries: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Landscape care and maintenance services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cold Creek Nurseries safety composite

Cold Creek Nurseries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Cold Creek Nurseries: 4.2 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Cold Creek Nurseries's TCR rose 4.2 from 4.2 in 2023 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Aiken, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #20/32
  • PHOTO RLC - 002
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RLC - 002 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cold Creek Nurseries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cold Creek Nurseries averages 6.3 TCR (140% 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

Cold Creek Nurseries TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Cold Creek Nurseries falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 32 Landscape care and maintenance employers in South Carolina.

Cold Creek Nurseries (153 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Cold Creek Nurseries
Cold Creek Nurseries (153 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Cold Creek Nurseries 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 8.4 6.8 8 2 0
2023 4.2 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · SC · Aiken

2,875 Landscape care and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Aiken, SC · 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 RLC - 002 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bluegrass Lawncare of St. Louis 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royer Brothers Tree Service, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5870 - Boston West 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kent Companies Southeast - Fort Mill, SC 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Columbia 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCL Label 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Spiralweld Pipe Co., LLC 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR CB&I AREVA MOX Services 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-11068000-11068 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-159 916 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atkins Energy America 908 FTE
NAT-TCR Concordia At Ridgewood Place 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR I Squared R Element Co., Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GapVax 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Petro RI - Warwick 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cast Products Inc 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tnmur - Murfreesboro 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tnfra - Franklin 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enlinx 153 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. 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.