Trees merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee

Smithville, TN · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Trees merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee: 8.9 TCR = 405% of Trees merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee safety composite

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2017

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee injury rate improved

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee's TCR fell 0.5 from 9.2 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424930 · Smithville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 405% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Gardens Alive Farms …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gardens Alive Farms - Michigan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee averages 8.9 TCR (405% of the Trees merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=8.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee falls in its industry

185 Trees merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee (132 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 - Tennessee
Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee (132 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Gardens Alive Farms - Tennessee has more employees than the Trees merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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 8.7 8.1 14 0 0
2016 9.2 9.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424930 · TN · Smithville

185 Trees merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 25 employers in Smithville, TN · 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 Gardens Alive Farms - Michigan 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenleaf Nursery Co. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Trees Enterprises, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Floral Company- Houston 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utility 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Tennessee - Chattanooga 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE HVAC, Inc. 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Motorparts 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco Smithville 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Corporation 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHIROKI North America - Smithville 423 FTE
NAT-TCR Chalk Hill - Hib (Txckl) 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerville (Masom) 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BOS - Airport United Airlines Offices 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 510 ABC Supply Co., inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAPP Lowell 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 4205 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 21 - Charlotte, NC 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 31 - Indianapolis, IN 132 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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