Nursery stock growing · Alabama

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc.

Irvington, AL · ~59 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc.: 11.9 TCR = 264% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. safety composite

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc.: 0.0 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc.'s TCR rose 21.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 21.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Irvington, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Village Nurseries Br…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village Nurseries Bradshaw Yard (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. averages 11.9 TCR (264% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=14 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=21.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Nursery stock growing employers in Alabama.

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc.
Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cottage Hill Nursery, Inc. has more 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 21.1 0.0 6 3 0
2023 12.6 0.0 4 2 0
2022 10.7 0.0 3 2 0
2021 14.0 0.0 8 0 0
2020 12.8 0.0 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · AL · Irvington

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 11 employers in Irvington, AL · 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 Village Nurseries Bradshaw Yard 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sod Farm 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plug Connection -Vista 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Larch Farm 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marshall Dekalb Electric Coop 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division Varnons Crew Headquarters 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Construction & Maintenance, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whaley Construction 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7067 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7067 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR TAS, INC. 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esfeller Construction Company 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Arizona Petroleum 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S&S Structures, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thomson-Hood Veterans Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #253 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Napoleon Care Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Iron & Metal Co- Durant 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 550 - Dump - Tempe 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insight FS - Antigo 59 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, 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.