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

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina

Name: Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sims, NC · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 3.9
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina: 3.9 TCR = 178% of Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina safety composite

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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 North Carolina: 0.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2017

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina's TCR rose 7.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Sims, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 178% of ind

DART 4.7 DART
RANK P72
PHOTO 19-TROUP
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 19-TROUP (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.9
19-TROUP

3.9

What this shows Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina averages 3.9 TCR (178% of the Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina falls in its industry

185 Nursery stock (except plant bu establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina (87 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Gardens Alive Farms North Carolina has more 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
2017	7.8	4.7	7	3	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · NC · Sims

185 Nursery stock (except plant bulbs, seeds) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sims, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	19-TROUP	TROUP, TX	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PIKES PEAK OF NEW ORLEANS	NEW ORLEANS, LA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Encore Floral Marketing Inc-MICH	GRAND RAPIDS, MI	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Encore Floral Marketing Inc-FLORIDA	DORAL, FL	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Primoris T&D Services - Raleigh	RALEIGH	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Haynes Heating & Cooling	ASHEVILLE	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ENVIRONAMICS, INCORPORATED CHARLOTTE	CHARLOTTE	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Moody Dunbar, Inc	DUNN	87 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FARM	Sims	75 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SHARP FARM INC	Sims	70 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hocutt Farms, Inc.	Sims	22 FTE
NAT-TCR	Giant Eagle #3284	Avon, OH	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Thief River Falls (Mnthe)	Thief River Falls, MN	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	03-Brown Deer	Brown Deer, WI	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	US NM Carlsbad 3300 East Greene	Carlsbad, NM	3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Poplar Bluff Inc	Poplar Bluff, MO	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fleetline dba Dart Transit Lancaster	Lancaster, TX	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kimber Mfg., Inc. 1 Lawton	Yonkers, NY	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bechtel Oil & Gas	Baytown, TX	87 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.