Garden centers · Colorado

Echter's

Name: Echter's Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Arvada, CO · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Echter's runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Echter's: 5.8 TCR = 170% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Echter's safety composite

Echter's scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Echter's: 2.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2021

Echter's's TCR rose 9.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Arvada, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 170% of ind

DART 7.3 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Agri Supply of Lumbe…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~60 FTE

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

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What this shows Echter's averages 5.8 TCR (170% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

Echter's TCR series: 2016=2 · 2018=4.3 · 2021=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Echter's falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Garden centers employers in Colorado.

Echter's (60 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Echter's has more employees than the Garden centers median and a lower 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
2021	11.0	7.3	6
2018	4.3	2.2	2
2016	2.0	2.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CO · Arvada

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 129 employers in Arvada, CO · 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	Agri Supply of Lumberton	LUMBERTON, NC	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Summerwinds West Bell	GLENDALE, AZ	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	30 Grand Rapids Warehouse	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RK-032-Columbus ( RK-032 )	COLUMBUS, IN	5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Farm	MONTE VISTA	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Empire Electric Association	CORTEZ	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	O&M Boulder	BOULDER	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1777 Chestnut Place	DENVER	60 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sundyne LLC	Arvada	360 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WANCO, Inc.	Arvada	308 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC.	Arvada	298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LivaNova	Arvada	276 FTE
NAT-TCR	CBH Travel Plaza-Gillette	Gillette, WY	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sutter Care at Home (247-CONHH)	Concord, CA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	7791-Enphg-Colby Sawyer College	New London, NH	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nevada Gypsum Floors, LLC	Henderson, NV	5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Chagrin Valley Paving, Inc.	Chagrin Falls, OH	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chemical Transportation, Inc.	Phoenix, AZ	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	S03973 - WM of Northwest Indiana	Portage, IN	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tcw, Inc Atlanta	Conley, GA	60 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, 2018, 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.