Garden centers · Nebraska

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2

Lincoln, NE · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2: 6.2 TCR = 181% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 safety composite

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2: 5.2 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2021

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.2 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 181% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Armstrong Garden Cen…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armstrong Garden Centers 758 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 averages 6.2 TCR (181% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=12.7 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Garden centers employers in Nebraska.

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 (30 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2
Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 (30 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #2 has fewer employees than the Garden centers 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
2021 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2019 12.7 12.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · NE · Lincoln

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Armstrong Garden Centers 758 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Kenosha 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-895-Wavery TAC (RK-895) 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Operations 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Whitetail, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lost Island, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTZ Construction, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering- North Platte 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Mechanicsburg 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PHS - Harmony River 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0330 - Frederick Md Whse 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Confections Plant 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arnegard, ND Warehouse 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Floating Docks Mfg Co 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infinite Glass and Metal, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE F.M. Acoustical Tile Inc. 30 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.