Garden centers · Tennessee

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC

Columbia, TN · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Garden centers workplace, earning a grade D.

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC: 4.3 TCR = 125% of Garden centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC safety composite

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC: 0.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC's TCR rose 8.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Columbia, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 125% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Armstrong Garden Cen…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Armstrong Garden Centers 717 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fernwood Garden Center, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fernwood Garden Center, LLC averages 4.3 TCR (125% of the Garden centers BLS benchmark).

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

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Fernwood Garden Center, LLC falls in its industry

642 Garden centers establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Garden centers employers in Tennessee.

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC (19 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Fernwood Garden Center, LLC
Fernwood Garden Center, LLC (19 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Fernwood Garden Center, LLC has fewer 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.5 8.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · TN · Columbia

642 Garden centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 717 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisonburg AG/Sports supply 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX GIN COMPANY 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Covington 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Jackson 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LC SoBro, LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury Regional Medical Center 2,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury County Government 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia State Community College 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 192 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 7589 - Garland TX - Sout 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Santa Clara 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5315W-Colorado Springs West 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pure Air Control Services 4.3 TCR

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. 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.