Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Gardens Alive Farms

Grand Haven, MI · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardens Alive Farms runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardens Alive Farms: 5.1 TCR = 230% of Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardens Alive Farms safety composite

Gardens Alive Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Gardens Alive Farms: 4.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2022

Gardens Alive Farms's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.2 in 2020 to 5.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Grand Haven, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 230% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Fallbrook - 01
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fallbrook - 01 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardens Alive Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardens Alive Farms averages 5.1 TCR (230% of the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gardens Alive Farms TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2022=5.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardens Alive Farms falls in its industry

185 Nursery stock (except plant bu establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Nursery stock (except plant bu employers in Michigan.

Gardens Alive Farms (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardens Alive Farms
Gardens Alive Farms (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Gardens Alive Farms has fewer employees than the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2022 5.9 3.0 4 0 0
2020 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · MI · Grand Haven

185 Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 81 employers in Grand Haven, MI · 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 Fallbrook - 01 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Certified Roses Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Syndicate Sales, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR FF-Georgia 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1003 Canal St 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller-Davis Company 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gundlach Champion, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLOSNER CONSTRUCTION & SALES INC 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Haven Area Public Schools 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shape Corp - 14600 172nd Ave. 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Ottawa Community Hospital 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR TH Grand Haven Hospital-MH-MI 409 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-IAHCC0170 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Duluth Bethel Society Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schutt Sports LLC - Litchfield 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Montana Sulphur & Chemical Co 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mulch Manufacturing Homerville 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atrium At Gainesville 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Foxwoods Resort & Casino Fd Ct 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Bremen Community High School 49 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: 2022, 2020. 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.