Herb farming, grown under cover · Massachusetts

Garden Remedies, Inc.

Fitchburg, MA · ~175 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garden Remedies, Inc. runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Herb farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade B.

Garden Remedies, Inc.: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Herb farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garden Remedies, Inc. safety composite

Garden Remedies, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−0.8

2023→2024

Garden Remedies, Inc. injury rate improved

Garden Remedies, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 3.2 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Fitchburg, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/23
  • PHOTO Gilroy Location
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gilroy Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Garden Remedies, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garden Remedies, Inc. averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Herb farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Garden Remedies, Inc. TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Garden Remedies, Inc. falls in its industry

251 Herb farming, grown under cove establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 23 Herb farming, grown under cove employers in Massachusetts.

Garden Remedies, Inc. (175 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Garden Remedies, Inc.
Garden Remedies, Inc. (175 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Garden Remedies, Inc. has more employees than the Herb farming, grown under cover median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2023 3.2 1.1 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · MA · Fitchburg

251 Herb farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, MA · 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 Gilroy Location 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soli Organic Inc. - Harrisonburg Pack 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Chemistry - Holliston 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trulieve - Camp Verde 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colonial Systems 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE McNairn Packaging Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henke Sass Wolf of America, Inc 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairfield County Council 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Related Management Company LP Parkway Gardens 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Heights VA 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MIDATLANTIC 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Interior Contractors, Inc. 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-County Industries Inc 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooksville Healthcare Center 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrillville IN 175 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. 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.