Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supply Stores · Arizona

Cottonwood

Surprise, AZ · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottonwood runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supply Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Cottonwood: 6.7 TCR = 196% of Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supply Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottonwood safety composite

Cottonwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Cottonwood: 5.6 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 613.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2022

Cottonwood's TCR rose 2.1 from 5.6 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 613.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Surprise, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 196% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Agri Supply of Tifton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agri Supply of Tifton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottonwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottonwood averages 6.7 TCR (196% of the Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supply Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Cottonwood TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=613.5 · 2022=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Cottonwood falls in its industry

642 Nurseries, Garden Centers, and establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Nurseries, Garden Centers, and employers in Arizona.

Cottonwood (56 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottonwood
Cottonwood (56 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Cottonwood has more employees than the Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supp median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2022 7.7 7.7 3 0 0
2018 613.5 613.5 3 0 0
2017 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · AZ · Surprise

642 Nurseries, Garden Centers, and Farm Supply Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 130 employers in Surprise, AZ · 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 Agri Supply of Tifton 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-024-Kokomo ( RK-024 ) 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Nursery-Division 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edwards Greenhouse, Inc. 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Casa Grande Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Bath Phoenix 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premier Building Group Collective 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rowley Plastering LC 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-508 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMR Constructors, Inc- Mission Critical 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2777 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Surprise (Parks and Rec) 410 FTE
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Ukiah 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR California coated products division 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Improvement Wholesale, Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE MEC, Inc. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE MDW-SPF 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seal Master Corp. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Cruz Grocery Outlet 56 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: 2022, 2018, 2017. 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.