Wholesale Nursery · Florida

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka

Apopka, FL · ~153 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wholesale Nursery workplace, earning a grade D.

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Wholesale Nursery BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka safety composite

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.5

2021→2024

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka injury rate improved

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka's TCR fell 10.5 from 13.3 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=13.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Apopka, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO Encinal 2
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encinal 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka averages 6.5 TCR (145% of the Wholesale Nursery BLS benchmark).

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

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka TCR series: 2021=13.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka falls in its industry

386 Wholesale Nursery establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Wholesale Nursery employers in Florida.

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka (153 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka
Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka (153 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Dewar Nurseries, Inc. Apopka has more employees than the Wholesale Nursery 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 2.8 1.4 6 0 0
2023 3.5 1.3 7 1 0
2021 13.3 13.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · FL · Apopka

386 Wholesale Nursery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 119 employers in Apopka, FL · 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 Encinal 2 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verde River Growers, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TreeSource Nursery 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fernlea Nurseries- JUP 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rapid Response Team Pensacola 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Southern Division 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herzog Contracting Corp - HSR Constructors 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Applegate USA, LLC 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Apopka 820 FTE
CITY-NEAR FINFROCK DMC 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Randall Mechanical Inc 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR FINFROCK 470 FTE
NAT-TCR Modular Steel Systems Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Montgomery Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Midcoast - 58 Baribeau 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoring Engineers 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Myers Industries - Akro Mils 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - MSY 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Estates 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE JM Electrical Company 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, 2021. 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.