Nursery and garden centers without tree production · Colorado

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc

Fort Collins, CO · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc runs at 482% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery and garden centers without tree production workplace, earning a grade F.

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc: 16.4 TCR = 482% of Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc safety composite

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc: 11.0 → 31.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 31.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc's TCR rose 20.9 from 11.0 in 2022 to 31.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Fort Collins, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 482% of ind

  • DART 25.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO RK-118-Huntsville ( …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-118-Huntsville ( RK-118 ) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc averages 16.4 TCR (482% of the Nursery and garden centers without tree production BLS benchmark).

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

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc TCR series: 2022=11 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=31.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc falls in its industry

642 Nursery and garden centers wit establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc (22 employees, TCR 16.4) 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 Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc
Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc (22 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc has fewer employees than the Nursery and garden centers without tree 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
2024 31.8 25.5 5 0 0
2023 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.0 11.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · CO · Fort Collins

642 Nursery and garden centers without tree production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 268 employers in Fort Collins, CO · 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 RK-118-Huntsville ( RK-118 ) 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 723 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 90 Elyria 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Planters' Choice LLC 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack's Bean Company LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ponderosa Partnership LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Demolition, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association- Pueblo West Administration 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poudre Valley Hospital 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Collins 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Belgium Brewing Company: Fort Collins 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward Inc. - Lincoln Campus Facility 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Sioux City Police Department 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprindance Hot Tubs- DC 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandstone of Spring Valley 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin City Foods Inc 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Douglas IL 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brown City MI 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Hawk Fire Protection PDX 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works Administration 22 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, 2022. 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.