Garden power equipment stores · North Carolina

Gardner-Dixie Sales

Brown'S Summit, NC · ~115 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner-Dixie Sales runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Garden power equipment stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Gardner-Dixie Sales: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Garden power equipment stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner-Dixie Sales safety composite

Gardner-Dixie Sales scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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→2021

Gardner-Dixie Sales injury rate improved

Gardner-Dixie Sales's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.4 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444210 · Brown'S Summit, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/13
  • PHOTO Cherry Valley Tracto…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherry Valley Tractor Sales (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner-Dixie Sales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner-Dixie Sales averages 1.6 TCR (48% 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-Dixie Sales TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Gardner-Dixie Sales falls in its industry

136 Garden power equipment stores establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Garden power equipment stores employers in North Carolina.

Gardner-Dixie Sales (115 employees, TCR 1.6) 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-Dixie Sales
Gardner-Dixie Sales (115 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 28 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Gardner-Dixie Sales 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444210 · NC · Brown'S Summit

136 Garden power equipment stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Cherry Valley Tractor Sales 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huffman's Farm & Home - Fort Madison, IA 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIELDS EQUIPMENT COMPANY 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brunswick Electric Membership Corp. Supply District 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Harnett-Harnett Regional Water 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heavy Highway 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-TCR Avon Lake SEM 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Group 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrosion Monitoring Services 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dot Foods, Inc.- OK 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7076-Enphg-Robert Morris University 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flexitech-Illinois (BMI) 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackline Midland Office 115 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.