Flower growing · Pennsylvania

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz

Name: Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Lititz, PA · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Flower growing workplace, earning a grade A.

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Flower growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz safety composite

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−1.0

2017→2018

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz injury rate improved

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.0 in 2017 to 1.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Lititz, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #2/11
PHOTO Richard Hagstrom Fer…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richard Hagstrom Ferneries (0.1 TCR gap)

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1.6
Cyma Orchids

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This site

1.5
Richard Hagstr

1.4

What this shows Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Flower growing BLS benchmark).

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz falls in its industry

166 Flower growing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Flower growing employers in Pennsylvania.

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz (115 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz has more employees than the Flower growing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2018	1.0	1.0	1	0	0
2017	2.0	1.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · PA · Lititz

166 Flower growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 75 employers in Lititz, PA · 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	Richard Hagstrom Ferneries	PIERSON, FL	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	White Pond Gardens Inc	AKRON, OH	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cyma Orchids	OXNARD, CA	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Green Valley Floral, Inc	SALINAS, CA	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WNDOB Windsor Office Building	ALLENTOWN	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Penn Hills Service Center	PITTSBURGH	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc.	BETHLEHEM	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shields Asphalt Paving	VALENCIA	115 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UPMC Lititz	Lititz	593 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Johnson and Johnson Consumer Health Care Lititz	Lititz	551 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Landis Homes	Lititz	519 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tait Towers Manufacturing LLC	Lititz	482 FTE
NAT-TCR	Power Services : GRS - Dallas, TX, USA (Service Center)	Dallas, TX	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Laurel Office EN3Q	Laurel, MS	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	4028-AZ000	Phoenix, AZ	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bombardier Transportation - Atlanta - ATL	Atlanta, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Sulphur Springs (Txsul)	Sulphur Springs, TX	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kokomo (Inkok)	Kokomo, IN	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Manchester Tank Crossville	Crossville, TN	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avante at Wilson	Wilson, NC	115 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: 2018, 2017. 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.