Garden centers · Nebraska

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40

Name: Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lincoln, NE · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.2
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40: 7.2 TCR = 211% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 safety composite

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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 #40: 6.5 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40's TCR rose 1.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 211% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/5
PHOTO RK-117-Crossville ( …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-117-Crossville ( RK-117 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.2
RK-117-Crossvi

7.2
Newhall Store

7.2
RK-133-Warsaw

7.2
Southern State

7.2

What this shows Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 averages 7.2 TCR (211% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2020=7.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Garden centers employers in Nebraska.

Earl May Seed & Nursery Garden Center #40 (23 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 #40 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
2020	7.9	0.0	1	0	0
2016	6.5	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	RK-117-Crossville ( RK-117 )	CROSSVILLE, TN	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Newhall Store	SANTA CLARITA, CA	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RK-133-Warsaw (RK-133)	WARSAW, IN	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southern States Charlottesville Coop.	CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA	7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CSS Farms - Cody	CODY	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BHGNE - Scottsbluff (NE069)	SCOTTSBLUFF	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nebraska Region	OMAHA	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	105282 - MHIF Mental Health Facility	OMAHA	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nelnet Servicing LLC	Lincoln	2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nelnet - Lincoln HQ	Lincoln	2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bryan East Campus	Lincoln	2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FACTS Education Corporation	Lincoln	1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR	Durham Manufacturing	Durham, CT	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Legacy Air, Inc. Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Newhall Store	Santa Clarita, CA	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wright-Patterson AFB	Dayton, OH	7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Wm. B. Saleh Co.	Bakersfield, CA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	J. D'Amico, Inc.	Randolph, MA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Land of Lincoln Goodwill Savoy Store	Savoy, IL	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cornerstone Residence of Kelliher	Kelliher, MN	23 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: 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.