Landscape installation services · Montana

Forde Nursery Inc

Great Falls, MT · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Forde Nursery Inc runs at 409% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landscape installation services workplace, earning a grade F.

Forde Nursery Inc: 18.4 TCR = 409% of Landscape installation services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forde Nursery Inc safety composite

Forde Nursery Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Forde Nursery Inc: 6.1 → 20.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 36.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

Forde Nursery Inc's TCR rose 14.8 from 6.1 in 2018 to 20.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 36.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Great Falls, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 409% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Weed Man Fresno
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weed Man Fresno (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Montana employers → · Look up another →

Forde Nursery Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forde Nursery Inc averages 18.4 TCR (409% of the Landscape installation services BLS benchmark).

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

Forde Nursery Inc TCR series: 2018=6.1 · 2019=36.3 · 2020=23.6 · 2021=5.5 · 2023=18.1 · 2024=20.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Forde Nursery Inc falls in its industry

2,875 Landscape installation service establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Forde Nursery Inc (23 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Forde Nursery Inc
Forde Nursery Inc (23 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Forde Nursery Inc has fewer employees than the Landscape installation services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 20.9 7.0 3 0 0
2023 18.1 12.1 3 0 0
2021 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 23.6 5.9 4 0 0
2019 36.3 18.1 5 1 0
2018 6.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · MT · Great Falls

2,875 Landscape installation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 121 employers in Great Falls, MT · 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 Weed Man Fresno 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike McCall Landscape, Inc. 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lawn Pro 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Property Maintenance Inc - Main 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beaverhead Ranch 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying D Ranch 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Havre 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rotherham Construction Inc 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2455 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7199 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2455 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7199 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Street and Sanitation 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Powderhorn Pacific LLC 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Uncle Giuseppe's Ramsey, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builder Design Center - AZ 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2nd Home Newark 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Care of Howell 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowell Corporation 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.