Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores · Ohio

Gales Westlake Garden Center

Westlake, OH · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gales Westlake Garden Center runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Gales Westlake Garden Center: 11.1 TCR = 327% of Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gales Westlake Garden Center safety composite

Gales Westlake Garden Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

TCR Δ

−72.2

2016→2018

Gales Westlake Garden Center injury rate improved

Gales Westlake Garden Center's TCR fell 72.2 from 83.3 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 83.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=83.3 · 2018=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Westlake, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 327% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #60/62
  • PHOTO RK-087-Springfield (…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RK-087-Springfield ( RK-087 ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gales Westlake Garden Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gales Westlake Garden Center averages 11.1 TCR (327% of the Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gales Westlake Garden Center TCR series: 2016=83.3 · 2018=11.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Gales Westlake Garden Center falls in its industry

642 Nursery, Garden Center, and Fa establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 62 Nursery, Garden Center, and Fa employers in Ohio.

Gales Westlake Garden Center (33 employees, TCR 11.1) 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 Gales Westlake Garden Center
Gales Westlake Garden Center (33 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Gales Westlake Garden Center has fewer employees than the Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply 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
2018 11.1 11.1 3 0 0
2016 83.3 66.7 3 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · OH · Westlake

642 Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 95 employers in Westlake, OH · 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-087-Springfield ( RK-087 ) 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Store 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridott Plant 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUMMERWINDS NURSERY - CAMPBELL 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foertmeyer & Sons Greenhouse 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 1 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Philadelphia Service Building 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John Medical Center 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Erie Electric, Inc. 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Equity Administrative Services, Inc. - Westlake Office 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR TruWest Company 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Hydro Resources, MDC Sunray 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TN 1810 Columbia Ave. STE 24 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR WIC Oklahoma City Branch 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Residential - 55 VanDyke Ave. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Residential - 125 Darlene Dr. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Island Service Building Annex 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc0234) 33 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.