Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers · Georgia
CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising
Atlanta, GA · ~303 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 4.8
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 4.8
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 49
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising falls in its industry
1,442 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili establishmentsSafer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 27 Garden supplies (e.g., fertili employers in Georgia.
CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising has an average TCR of 4.8, which is 220% of the industry average (2.2) for Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising
Between 2018 and 2021, CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 4.0 to 3.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 2% decrease across 3 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 3.9, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 5.8, a spread of 1.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 4 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 4 reporting years, CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising recorded 49 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424910 - Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
10 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 507,733 hours worked = 3.94 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising (this establishment) | 4.83 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Farm Supplies industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 424910 |
| Georgia state avg (all industries) | 4.11 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2021: 10 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 14 reportable incidents · 13 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 15 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 11 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising's reported OSHA injury record versus its Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 220% of the Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers benchmark, CRRST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Garden supplies (e.g., fertilizers, pesticides) merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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