Garden power equipment stores · Massachusetts

Gardner-Connell

Franklin, MA · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner-Connell runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Garden power equipment stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Gardner-Connell: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Garden power equipment stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner-Connell safety composite

Gardner-Connell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Gardner-Connell: 1.9 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.94× in 2021

Gardner-Connell's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444210 · Franklin, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P97
  • PHOTO Howard Brothers Oakw…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Howard Brothers Oakwood (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gardner-Connell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner-Connell averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Garden power equipment stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner-Connell TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Gardner-Connell falls in its industry

136 Garden power equipment stores establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gardner-Connell (46 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardner-Connell
Gardner-Connell (46 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gardner-Connell has more employees than the Garden power equipment stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444210 · MA · Franklin

136 Garden power equipment stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 85 employers in Franklin, 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 Howard Brothers Oakwood 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurinburg 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriGreen Equipment Oxford 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vincennes 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verano MA CPG 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piledriving Job Site - 001 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE B.W. Kennedy & Company, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fuse HQ 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taunton 1,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 55 675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 50 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horace Mann Educational Associates 633 FTE
NAT-TCR MSX International - Southfield 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Guest Supply Grove City, Ohio 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shields Asphalt Paving 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Western 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7791-Enphg-Colby Sawyer College 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7751-Enphg-Bethany College 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Pomona 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petersons North Branch Mill 46 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.