Agents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade · Minnesota

Gardenworld, Inc.

Cottage Grove, MN · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardenworld, Inc. runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Gardenworld, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 150% of Agents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardenworld, Inc. safety composite

Gardenworld, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−4.7

2021→2024

Gardenworld, Inc. injury rate improved

Gardenworld, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 425120 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 150% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO 2904-SAS-NY
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2904-SAS-NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardenworld, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardenworld, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (150% of the Agents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade BLS benchmark).

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

Gardenworld, Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Gardenworld, Inc. falls in its industry

243 Agents and brokers, durable go establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Agents and brokers, durable go employers in Minnesota.

Gardenworld, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardenworld, Inc.
Gardenworld, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Gardenworld, Inc. has fewer employees than the Agents and brokers, durable goods, whole median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.5 4.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

425120 · MN · Cottage Grove

243 Agents and brokers, durable goods, wholesale trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, MN · 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 2904-SAS-NY 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Safety House Phoenix 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2904-SAS-MO 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2904-AWP-OH 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #12 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cellsite Solutions, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Archbold Memorial Hospital 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cotton O'Neil Urish 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wells Specialty Pharmacy, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Round Rock, TX-Picadilly Drive 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noblesville, IN - E. 146th St 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago, IL - S Kolmar 27 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, 2022, 2021. 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.